Another contributing factor to E4A's success, as Dudley expressed it, is the interest shown by great numbers of people in the idea and activities of E4A, even when these people are unable to contribute money. Horner says she thinks E4A is "serving real kind of needs," and that "the opportunity for off-campus learning at the present moment is very important."

Despite the cynical remark of the upperclassman I quoted earlier, Harvard's attitude also seems to be shifting towards greater emphasis on off-campus learning. Francis D. Fisher '47, director of the recently-created Office for Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said he is "very much aware" of the activities of E4A and that he spoke at length to Judith Newman, former E4A project director, about the organization's activities and the opportunities it makes available for students.

But the most persistent aspect of E4A's success is its emphasis on the human quality of its activities. E4A doesn't measure success in literal terms by measuring final achievements against a project's original goals, Dudley said. Rather, E4A asks if the individual involved has personally grown in awareness and whether, in some measure, the projects have contributed to social change. E4A, according to Bliss, is oriented to meeting the needs of people-people in the University and people in the communities which students hope to serve.

IT CAN CERTAINLY be said-and several board members did say-that E4A is certainly not going to change the world singlehandedly. Edward J. Warshauer '73, a new board member, says he sees his role as one of trying to get E4A's money to fulfill whatever positive needs it can in limited ways.

But E4A has touched the lives of many students and community people. Some students have helped establish totally new community services. One elderly woman involved in a food cooperative organized last year by Devorah Hexdall, wrote to E4A: "I am very pleased with the fruits and vegetables, also the boys and girls that work for the co-op. I hope they keep up the good work as we could use a lot more people like them to make a better place to live in."

In a too-often-cloistered University which frequently seems to think it is the world, such small successes in another world appear great, indeed.

'E4A's aim is to provide organizational and policy-making experience for undergraduates, and a student-run structure sensitive to the needs of the students involved with it.'

'The political side of E4A's activities lies in its conception of education and the direction of the person's growth towards greater involvement in the community in which the person lives.'