IT IS MORE BLESSED--

Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best.

The Rockefeller Foundation has promised seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars when the Fund reaches the two million, two hundred thousand mark. Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr., impatient to sign that check, has promised another for one hundred thousand if the required goal is reached by July 1 of this year. The only thing lacking in such a setting is a thermometer of the Liberty Loan variety in front of Langdell.

A prominent graduate, already a heavy donor, has come forward with an additional offer if four men in a certain sector of the country will give just twice as much. This would assure the quota set by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Fund being now one hundred thousand dollars shy. To increase the sporting chance the latest challenge has been hurled directly in the teeth of New England. Her reputation for open-handed giving and largesse is at stake and ninety thousand dollars has been set as its proof. A new zest has been added to what must have become a palling pastime, which coupled with the high worth of the cause would seem to add much to the gentle art of giving, --to the Harvard Law School Endowment Fund.