"YOU CAN COUNT ME IN"

I'VE LOST my reply card but I'll send five dollars this month. I lost my home, got a 32% pay cut and had a bank close with all my cash so can't do any more this year." This is, verbatim, a message received by a class agent of the Alumni Fund, of a sort which the agents are reporting in numbers this year. —"These are tough times and I am therefore doubling my subscription, whether I can afford it or not," is another reply received, typical of a different, and less numerous, category of response to the "No Quota" campaign.— "I don't know, yet, what I can do, but I will be in there before June 30," many others write to their class agents and to Hanover.— And of course there are many who write, "Sorry . . .

No work for fourteen months," and similar messages in greater detail, in many of which the regret is obviously great. There are infinite variations on each of these replies—but these are the predominant themes of the response to the Fund campaign to date, a response which has been richly gratifying to all of those who are participating in the Fund work this year and which, regardless of the totals on June 30, will have contributed to the College dividends of an incalculable sort.

After the Fund Committee's "No Quota" announcement sent out at the end of April, there have been no further communications from the Committee. The class agents have followed through along the lines laid down by the Committee, withholding from urging gifts but urging replies from all their classmates. The result indicated to date is what everyone anticipated, a final total substantially less than last year's. On May 23, 1,394 gifts had reached Hanover, totalling $27,200. This is substantially less than the $45,197 which had reached Hanover on May 23 last year from 2,062 contributors. The indicated decrease in the number of gifts is less great, however, and it appears certain that the unanimity of alumni participation which has been Dartmouth's great pride will once again distinguish the returns with only minor diminution under the most difficult conditions. Considering that this year's campaign opened later than last year's and that there is yet a month before June 30, one can be confident from indications to date that the final total will be of such size as to make a substantial decrease in the College's deficit. Meanwhile, amounts tend to lose significance before the class agents' correspondence and the warmth of enthusiasm and the strong desire to help to the utmost which the "No Quota" campaign has brought forth.