Gifts from more than 2,000 contributors to the Harvard Law School's $5,000,000 endowment fund now total $1,000,000, it has been announced by W. M. Powell '96, national chairman of the fund. These gifts are almost entirely from the alumni, although some have come from business men and others interested in the School.

On January 12 at the Harvard Club of New York, J. P. Cotton '96 New York Chairman of the Fund, gave a dinner to the alumni of the Law School, at which the necessity for more funds for the maintenance of the School's exceptionally high standards was discussed.

At this dinner Mr. Powell pointed out that about $900,000 in gifts from 2,000 alumni represented a high average gift, that about only half as many alumni contributions as are expected have been received. At least $500,000 more, he said, should come from alumni supporters of the School.

Mr. C.H. Strong, LL.B. '90, A.M. (hon.) '22 spoke of the graduate's unpaid debt to the Law School, laying stress on the fact that the training a man receives at the Harvard Law School is worth many times what it costs him.

Williston and Beale Speak

Professor Samuel Williston and Professor Joseph H. Beale also spoke informally.

"What we seen to do," Professor Williston said in part, "is to teach the best law in the best way. And this job of searching for the best is expensive. We've got to have more buildings, we've got to have more lecture rooms, we've got to have more teachers, if the Faculty is to continue to develop the best that is in each student."

"The Law School has given," remarked Professor Beale, "and given without hope or desire for return. But, in the present crisis, we can and will ask alumni to do what they can as an earnest expression of their belief in the School.

"Patient, detached, careful study by scholars is called for. If it is not done, other people will do the task in a different way and less effectively."