The sun., 1919-07-31
GIFTS TO HARVARD
OFTEN MISAPPLIED
Certain Branches Get Lions
Share Of requests, While
Others Go Begging.
OLD GRADS LEARN THIS
They Depart Much Impressed
by Need of All of $11,-
100000 Fund.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. July 3o--Just what
the old grads who have been attending
summer school at Harvard think of the
League of Nations. movie actresses and
the shinmy remained a mystery to-day
when the special session of millionaires
and near miilionaires disbanded.
A QUESTIONABLE which was to have en-
lighteped humanity on this subject. and
which had been carefully prepared by
Park Hanly and others of the publicity
staff. was sidetracked somewhere during
the breaking up hour.
Extreme reticence on the part of some
of the old grads in regard to the sub
jects enumerated is said to have caused
the mischief. Anyway, 1t was with
| thoughts OF Harvard alone that the jolly
class bid farewell to their dean Eliot
wadsworth, and scooted for the trains
The commencement of the special sum-
mer school was a most Informal affair
The men simply melted away toward the
| points Of the compass where they are TO
organize other Harvard men, tell them
what they have seen and prepare for the
campaign which begins in the fall to
raise $11. 000. 900 for the endowment fund.
Get Laboratory Shock.
Just before the exodus took place the
old grads were given genuine shock in
| the Cruft high tension laboratory. where
| Prof G. w. Pierce created a brilliant
! electrical display in the darkened room
| for their benefit Some of the crowd
thought for a few minutes that Prof.
Pierce was goingto give them a current
that would hold them there until they
had pledged the full $11,0O0,000 them
| selves. While they were in the labora-
| tory n wireless message was picked up,
and Dean Wadsworth expressed the
opinion that 1t was an inquiry as to the
whereabouts of Judge William Thomas
| of San Francisco, who was in the bunch,
| while NJ. ID. Follansbee thought II was
| a suggestion to raise the goal of the
drive to $2O.0O0.o00.
Prof. Pierce reported that 1t was n
message from Brunswick TO Lyons
| France relating TO tie sale of crop OF
| figs. The old grads got some more first
hand Information regarding the needs OF
| their Alma Mater, They learned from
Prof. Theodore Lyman of Jefferson Ply
steal Laboratory that the carpenter and
mechanician assisting him in his work
gets BIZ; see = month. while an ordinary
carpenter working in the yard gets s137.
| They also learned that jefferson Labora-
| tory has become so crowded that coal
! bins are being used for experimental pur-
poses,
While these talks were going on Milton
Warner, '92, was sitting in with one of
the regular summer school classes. He
| never discovered until the session was
| over that he was in the wrong place.
All Deeply Impressed.
Before leaving, many OF the old grads
remarked that the examination which
they made of every part of the univer-
sity within the last three days has made
| a deep impression upon them.
Harvard, according to most of them, Is
suffering from misplaced endowments
Some branches have been getting the
lions share of requests while others go
| begging. A comparison was made by
some members between the medical
school and the chemistry department
| The former has been remembered by
many wealthy benefactors, while the lat
| ter has been forgotten. The chemistry
| department to-day Is one OF the poor
| members of the university.
Again, It has been remarked that many
persons specify in their wills the things
for which money shall be expended.
This ties the hands of the institution in
certain respects. when one person has
started a building with generous endow-
ment il is next to impossible 20 get any
one else to contribute to carry the work
along.
Limit May he Raised.
However the old grads agree no de-
| partment can have too much money
President Lowell and others have urged
| that the drive be not stopped at the SILL
000, 900 specified. The principal need Is
| to raise a great sum with no strings at
| tached to It that can be used as the
| heads of the university deem necessary.
Among other things, President Lowell
| urges the necessity OF permitting certain
professors to give up their teaching and
devote their time to research and to per-
petuating their ideas In books.
Complete plans for the organization
of the endowment campaign were worked
out this morning by Thomas w. Lamont.
Mr.. Wadsworth and other delegates. The
men who will have charge of the drive In
New York are Mr.. Wadsworth. Mr.. La
mont, Edgar II. Wells, John Price Jones,
Robert f. Duncan, Thomas w Slocum.
John w. Prentiss and Guy Emerson.
Vernon Munroe of Englewood will han
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