In the mid-west and far west where there are fewer graduates from any part of the University, the distinction over whether or not you attended Harvard College has really ceased to matter. Leaders in alumni activities are frequently men who attended the Law School or the Graduate School of Art and Sciences.

All this expensive work to keep alumni interested in the University does bring results, for the graduates do contribute large sums to the fund drives and, equally important, do want their sons to attend their own College.

Little describes the Harvard alumnus as "the least pushed," of any graduates of major institutions.

At other schools graduates get the alumni magazine by class subscriptions, while at Harvard the option not to subscribe rests with the individual. The Fund Council at the University limits itself to mail appeals which alumni can throw away; elsewhere the money drives use personal solicitation to boost receipts, although this may cause resentment from alumni.

John Marquand's Opinion

Marquand summed up what the University means to a graduate when he said, "Harvard is a large enough institution to bear the blame for what it has done to us and for the inferiority complex it has created.

"Actually," he said, "I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover the error in my past. Then there is a slight pause in the conversation, a lifting of the eyebrows, an exchange of meaning glances, and somebody always says. "You never told us you were a Harvard man."

Whether you like it or not, as Marquand points out, you will be tarred with the brush of Harvard all your life.