For the 250,000 alumni of our several institutions, who must surely know that the survival of independent gift-supported colleges and universities, as we have known and loved them, is literally at stake, we have this urgent message:
"In giving to our alumni funds, let us now add careful thought to our loyalty, and discrimination to our impulse.
"Let us give thoughtfully and proportionately—in proportion to our con- cern for educational freedoms in a free society, and in proportion to our individual ability.
"Nothing less than that, the intelligent exercise of judgment and balance in our annual giving, can preserve this heritage that is now ours, and that we hold in trust for generations to come."
THOMAS F. BLACK JR., CHAIRMAN Brown Alumni Fund Trustees ROGER L. WENSLEY, CHAIRMAN Columbia Fund Committee HAROLD L. BACHE, PRESIDENT The Cornell Alumni Fund Council CHARLES J. ZIMMERMAN, CHAIRMAN Dartmouth College Alumni Fund CHARLES H. WATKINS, CHAIRMAN Harvard Fund Council HAROLD C. SCOTT, CHAIRMAN University of Pennsylvania Alumni Annual Giving Committee HAROLD H. HELM, CHAIRMAN Princeton University Fund EDWARD M. GREENE JR., CHAIRMAN Yale Alumni Fund Association