In Brief . . .

Corporate support of the College in 1971-72 amounted to $1,078,546. Some 430 companies, including 357 with matching gift programs, made cash grants to the College and the three associated schools. Corporations also provided $186,578 during the year for services rendered. The overall total for 1971-72 was down 11% from the previous year, but this drop was due principally to the fact that earlier totals included special gifts made by corporations to the Third Century Fund. A decline of $31,000 or 5.9% in "regular grants" almost exactly matched the 6% decline in corporate giving estimated nationally.

• Dartmouth College and the town of Holderness, N.H., have reached agreement on a sum the College will pay the town annually in lieu of taxes on the John S. Minary Conference Center which became tax-exempt when William S. Paley, board chairman of CBS, presented the Squam Lake estate to Dartmouth. Removal of the Center from the tax rolls put an unusual burden on the town of Holderness, and the College expressed a desire to compensate the town for the police, fire and other services rendered to the Center. Dartmouth's annual contribution will ap- proximate one-half the taxes that Holderness would have collected.