Establishing an all time high for number of contributors in any single year to an American college fund, 10,631 Harvard alumni contributed $104,618 to the Harvard Fund last year, G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. '10, of Boston, chairman of the Harvard Fund council, disclosed in a report on Fund activities today.
This is the fifth consecutive year that the Harvard alumni have led all other college groups in the number of contributors.
The total amount given to the Harvard Fund since its organization in 1925 is $1,713,023. A total of 20,349 individual alumni have contributed to the fund in this period, approximately two-thirds the living number of alumni in the College.
First place among Harvard College classes in the number of contributors was held by 1925, with 334 members giving money. Other top-ranking classes in the order named, were 1928, 1903, 1908, 1927, and 1910.
One hundred per cent records were established by the class of 1835, which has 76 members; and 1870, with five members.
Following the custom of recent years, donations of the 25th anniversary class of Harvard College, which makes a special donation to Harvard, were omitted from the Fund Council figures.
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