The sun., 1919-08-24
LAMONT CONFIDENT
IN HARVARD DRIVE
Fund Committee Joint Chair
man Sure 81, 100000 Will
Be Raised.
HIS AIDS ENTHUSIASTIC
subscriptions From Living
Harvard Men Expected
Outsiders Also to Help.
HIS AIDS ENTHUSIASTIC

Thomas w. Lamont OF J. P. Morgan
& Co, joint chairman with Eliot wads-
worth Of the Harvard Endowment
Fund national committee. confidently
expressed yesterday the opinion that the
fund OF s11,ooo.Ooo will be raised for
Harvard University IL the same interest
is found in Harvard men throughout the
country as manifested itself in the recent
session OF Old Grads School in Cam
bridge.
at is to the everlasting renown OF
Harvard" he said. that so many of her
sons answered Immediately the summons
to work for the fund. There they were,
business men, lawyers, physicians and
teachers, all men of intense activity and
now they are to give an appreciable
part Of their time to assist in the work
of raising the endowment. II means a
great deal for each one of these men who
have been appointed TO take days or
weeks from his work and give that time
to his university.
From all parts OF the country they
were willing to come for the Old Grads
Summer School at Harvard Attorneys
had to arrange their legal duties 80 that
they might not fail on these days. manu-
postpone their daily affairs so that they
might be entirely free.
Appreciate University's Needs.
And all this they are doing with the
utmost willingness, not because they
were asked and did not want TO refuse
nor because they believed il is fine or
ganzation OF workers with which TO be
associated, but because they feel keenly
the need of their alma mater. They will
not allow teachers to continue receiving
the pay of the unskilled workman who
learns mis- job in one days work.
When a member of the national COM
mittee in New York writes a letter for
information to one OF the chairmen he
receives a cordial and comprehensive
answer that often bears a suggestion
as to a method OF conducting a cam
paign. Frequently this suggestion, when
followed, leads to a greater volume of
work for the very man who made It,.
Yet that makes no difference. His inter-
est is the success of the campaign.
AT the Summer School ! had occa-
sion to talk personally with many OF
the chairmen whom we have appointed.
Some OF them already are laying aside
part OF their work, and are taking i'm
portant tasks in behalf OF Harvard
themselves, Each OF them will get into
communication with every man in his
district who had ever been associated
with Harvard in any capacity and for
any length OF time.
~ Few of the men will fnd their
work difficult not because there is p
great number OF Harvard men in their
districts but rather because there are
only few mon spread over wide areas.
one Of the committeeman said that in
order to be able TO see all OF the alumni
| in his territory he or some assistant
will have TO travel long distances by
! automobile and sometimes on horse
| back
Not only are the most thinly popu-
lated sections OF the United States
under the management of local chair
men, but 50. too, are Canada, England,
Australia, China, Japan, Hawaii and
! France. In the other parts OF the world
where there are Harvard men. and there
are some in every country OF the globe
a system will be effected whereby the
campaign may reach them.
| Glasses Never Wholly Reunited.
Such a distribution of the work as
We have made is the only possible one
by which the tasks might be approached
| Once class leaves Harvard II is almost
! hopeless ever 10 get it completely re-
| organized again. The last meetings at
/ baccalaureate and commencement are
solemn occasions for this very reason
| The group Is then together for the Ia ST
time. And though Dean Briggs tells us
that We can never shake the dust of
Cambridge from our feet, and that II a
man go TO Harvard for but a single day
some newspaper is sure to connect Har-
ward with his name in its very head
line, though these things are very true
it is just as true that once the men
leave college it is difficult to commune
cate with them.
THE catalogue OF the college for a
recent year says that there were at that
| time in Harvard students from England,
France, Africa, Albania, Argentina,
Uruguay. Turkey, Germany, Hungary,
New Zealand. Japan, China, Bulgaria,
Guatemala, Siam, Paramaribo. Honduras.
Bolivia and more than twenty other for
etgn countries. Every State IN the
Union was represented. as were also the
| Philippines. Porto Rico. Alaska and
Hawaii. But this Is the report for only
single year In other years other coun-
| tries have been represented II is neces-
sary that every man in each of these
places be reached by some committee.
1.-THE work has been 50 arranged that
each Of the chairmen will have card
| index of all the Harvard alumni in his
territory. So far as Is possible We have
set n quota for each division. Subscrip-
lions will be made at once or in install
ments up TO five years. Some men pre-
fer 10 spread the time OF their gift over
| this latter period in order that IL may
be larger. The Harvard Endowment
Fund Committee expects to go back to
the university with whatever fund II
raises with the record of having sub
scription from practically every living
Harvard man.
Furthermore, as expressive Of awak-
ened interest in general education, the
fund committee hopes to include In It's
gift to Harvard donations from men who
| are not Harvard men. men who will give
to place America in the educational fore
! front of the world