HARVARD FUND STARTS ACTIVE WORK FOR 1927

Active work on the campaign for 1927 has begun, the Harvard Fund Council announced last night. The Council has published and mailed to all former members of the College and the several Graduate Schools the second issue of "The Yard", a photographic supplement, the first number of which was published in December. The supplement consists of four pages, somewhat larger in size than the CRIMSON biweekly photographic section. The second issue was devoted more to photographs of individuals prominent in Harvard affairs and less to new buildings and athletics than the first. The fourth page of each number contained advertisements which virtually defrayed the entire cost of publication and mailing.

'Letters Out March 15

By March 15 the first Class Agents' letters, enclosing the Fund subscription blanks, will have been mailed to approximately 25,000 alumni of the College and to the members of the present Senior Class; together with a special letter to all former members of the various Graduate Schools. This is the same date on which similar letters of the Fund were mailed last year. The Fund is making every effort to enroll this year not only those men who subscribed in 1926 but a large proportion of the alumni that have yet to subscribe their first dollar.

J. R. Hamlen '04, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Fund Council, returned to Cambridge on March 5 from the South where he had been since February 19 in the Interest of the Associated Harvard Club and the Harvard Fund. During his trip he spoke on the Fund at the Harvard Clubs of St. Louis, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., New Orleans, La., Atlanta, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fia.

The Harvard Fund Council has arranged a table based upon the percentage of members of each Harvard class which has contributed to the Fund. The Class of 1860 leads the list, four members out of seven having contributed, making the class percentage 57-1.

Second place is held by the class of 1853 with a percentage of 50, while the 1868 graduates come third with a 41.1 percentage.

Of classes graduating since 1900, second place on the percentage list is held by the class of 1926, 132 of its 780 members having contributed to the fund, a percentage of 16-9.