The Dartmouth Alumni Fund closed its fifteenth

The Dartmouth Alumni Fund closed its fifteenth annual campaign Monday, July 1, with a shortage of less than $300 in the drive to reach the big goal of $130,000 for the year. Total subscriptions as shown in a full report of the Fund, by classes, printed on another page of this issue of the MAGAZINE are $129,776.51. This represents gifts from 5,662 contributors.

The margin of failure of the Fund to reach its quota is small. If any one of several classes that failed to reach their quotas had successfully completed its campaign the full $130,000 would have been secured. Success in the drive may be claimed on two counts—that of securing a larger number of contributors than ever before in Fund history and on the count of turning over to the College in excess of $9,000 more than the Alumni Fund has ever before collected.

The Fund Committee announces that its purpose of cutting down the operating expenses of the campaign has been met. The ratio of expense of opera. tion to total collections will be even lower than last year. A full and final report of the campaign listing all contributors will be sent later, as usual, to all alumni of the College.

In view of the fine result of the 1929 Alumni Fund campaign which was directed this year by F. H. Leggett '9B, chairman of the Fund Committee, it is interesting to compare the figures for this year with those of the previous four years. The following table shows the increase in amounts received and the increase in number of contributors year by year:

Number PercentPercent- of age ofAmount age of Contrib- Contrib-Year Quota Received Quota utors utors 1924-25 $ 90,000 $ 99,335.61 110 4,884 72 1925-26 110,000 110,578.37 100 5,103 73 1926-27 115,000 111,301.76 97 5,327 73 1927-28 115,000 120,591.44 105 5,505 72 1928-29 130,000 129,623.51 99 5,664 71