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Anxious to find out why people come to Harvard, the Laboratory of Social Relations quizzed more than 95 percent of the Freshman class yesterday and Wednesday, probing into economic, sociological, and psychological reasons in a 12-page questionnaire...
...three other gentlemen who will take similar seats on next year's Waltham council are seasoned incumbents, whose re-election was seconded by an unusual 70 percent turnout...
Bender's main work, however, is not making plans, but seeing merely that things run from day to day. He welcomes all students with difficulties, but especially the rough ten percent that gets "involved" with the delicate machinery of parietal and scholastic rules; in these cases, Bender is both judge and jury. He probably champs at the bit at many of these interviews, while he plans a Harvard that is a more socially conscious community...
Over on the other side of the ledger lies the matter of where the money comes from. Last year, tuition paid close to half of the University's expenses, while income from the endowment fund provided another quarter. Only ten percent came from a category known as "gifts for immediate use," which are outright cash donations not involving capital and interest; the remainder of the income issued forth mysteriously from miscellaneous' twin, "other...
...such a reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...