The Associated Harvard Clubs is one of the five major ways in which alumni remain in close contact with the University. While the clubs, which number over 100, stress social activities, they show their interest in the University by supporting College scholarships.

Three of the clubs--Boston, New York, and Los Angeles--have their own clubhouses and several of the others share their facilities with Yale and Princeton in H-Y-P clubs.

Specialist in Handling Alumni

David M. Little '18, secretary of the University, is the most important official in handling alumni. He helps the clubs arrange their local speakers and handles much of the correspondence between the University and alumni interested in specific problems.

Little is supposed to be the man who knows the most alumni by name, about 10,000.

One of the jobs of Little's office is to keep track of the very distant Harvard clubs in places like Japan and Germany. During the war there was even a temporary Harvard Club of Moscow which Conant addressed during a brief visit there on war work.

All University graduates are members without dues of the Alumni Association, but this is not a key factor in keeping them close to the University. The major work that the Association does is to arrange the ceremonies on the afternoon of Commencement day and to arrange for the election of Overseers, directors of the Association, and members of the Fund Council.

The final major way that an alumnus will regularly keep in touch with his alma mater is through the receipt of the annual ballot for the election of six Overseers and the other posts listed above.

The Overseers are the group who have the final review on all matters of policy around the University. Their method of selection might disturb educators, for alumni always seem to pick the most prominent men running for the offices disregarding any other factors that might be involved.

A couple of years ago, however, the alumni passed over all the national figures running to give the most votes for Overseers to W. Barry Wood '31, the former football star.

In spite of the business at the Hiss trial, a Harvard degree usually means less to a man who went to college at some other place. But there is a Law School Association that is quite active and a number of Business School clubs.

One recent development has been the formation of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research which is the alumni organization of the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Architecture, Education, and Public Administration.

Little Attention Previously

Previously no one really paid much attention to graduates of these departments and as a result they showed very little interest in their former schools.

University officials are working towards the day when a degree from any school will mean as much as attending the College. Certainly in the east there is still a separation in alumni activities between the College man and the graduate school alumnus.