ALUMNI INCREASE TO EXCEED 50,000

The total number of Harvard Alumni has again increased and the ten thousand men of Harvard is now over five times ten thousand according to information given out by the Harvard Fund Council. Out of a total of 52,468 graduates, the Alumni Directory has the addresses of 49,230 men while 3,238 are temporarily lost from the view point of the College.

Massachusetts leads all the states by a comfortable margin since it contains nearly a third of the alumni with known addresses, being 15,863 strong. In Boston alone there are 4,639 men while the census of all the New England states amounts to 19,481. New York ranks next in numerical strength with 7,652 graduates, 4,806 of which live in New York City. The west coast and neighboring states in the far west have sent 2,882 men to Harvard, California alone boasting of 2,013 alumni of the University. Nevada is at the bottom of the long list with only 23 men, the smallest number in any state.

Harvard graduates have not confined themselves to the boundaries of this continent, however, for the present addresses of 1,825 alumni are in foreign countries. There is a total of 2,389 men who are now living outside the United States, with Canada possessing 564 of that number.

The Harvard Fund Council as well as the Alumni Directory keeps in constant touch with all these graduates. The Council is an organization founded in the college and now in its third year of existence, which devotes its activity to the raising of unrestricted money of which President Eliot once said no University ever had enough. It has been founded on the precedent of similar organizations in other universities, Yale having had a fund for 37 years, Cornell for 19, and Dartmouth for 13.