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CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FOR TEN MILLIONS

CONVASS COUNTRY-WIDE

Dwight F. Davis '00, St, Louis, Mo.

Arthur H. Weed '03, Boston, Mass.

F. Abbot Goodhue '06, Boston, Mass. John Richardson '08, Boston Mass.

Robert F. Duncan '12, formerly with the Springfield Republican, has been appointed secretary to the committee, whose headquarters have been established at the office of the Harvard Alumni Association, at 50 State street, Boston.

The campaign, as outlined by Chairman Lamont, plans to provide against interference with the 25th class anniversary gifts of $100,000 which represent practically the only systematic contributions from alumni. The Committee believes that in order to obtain an endowment fund worthy of the name, the appeal must be country-wide and include practically every living Harvard man. A special effort will those graduates of smaller means, and those at a distance from the Atlantic seaboard, who is the past have not been reached because of lack of system in soliciting gifts.

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In regard to the sum required, Mr. Lamont states:

We have been questioned as to the amount necessary for Harvard's purposes. It is difficult to answer accurately such an inquiry. But those who have had the chance to give some study to the problem confidently believe that the sum of $10,000,000 indicates a figure that will adroitly serve Harvard's need, and that is well within the powers of her graduates to raise

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