HARVARD FUND REACHES TOTAL SUM OF $131,344

The following article is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin.

The total contribution to the Harvard Fund as tabulated last Saturday and announced this week by the Council; now amounts to $131,344 contributed by 4,107 men.

The following letter has been received at the Council's office from a contributor in Pittsburgh. It contains a pertinent suggestion for helping the Fund, and is reprinted here particularly for those men who have already given:

"I am enclosing my check for this year's subscription to the Harvard Fund, regretting exceedingly that it cannot be larger, but at any rate I want to be among the list of subscribers; and, insignificant though the amount is, I would like it credited to my class.

"I have an idea which if put into effect might result in a 100 per cent increase in at least the number of subscribers to the Fund. In looking over the second annual report. I received two great surprises. In the first place, I must have neglected through oversight to contribute the second year, although I did the first. The second surprise was to observe the absence from the list of one of my closest friends while in College, a man who has made a great success, who lives at a great distance from me, but with whom my College friendship has been kept alive through correspondence and very occasional personal meetings. In this case our relations are such that I would not hesitate for one moment to write to him, nor would he have the least objection to my doing so, in the interest of the Fund, frankly stating that I missed his name and that it ought to be there.

"Perhaps every present and past subscriber to the Fund has one or more such close personal friends whom they could bring in the same manner, and if each brought in only one it would make a wonderful showing."