Alumni Clubs Raise Record Scholar Fund

Harvard Clubs throughout the nation have contributed a record-breaking $67,650 for 1955-56 College scholarships, Wallace McDonald '44, Director of Freshman Scholarships, said last night. His announcement came on the eve of today's biennial meeting of representatives from the Clubs' Schools and Scholarship Committees.

Today and tomorrow, close to 60 Harvard Club representatives will discuss policy in a closed session at University Hall with Administration officials. The biennial meetings provide opportunity for the University to explain policy developments to key alumni and also for the alumni to present their own opinions on these policies, David D. Henry '41, Director of Admissions, said yesterday.

Probable Topics

Topics that may be brought up this year are the Program of Advanced Standing, the newly-instituted $10 application fee, and College expansion.

Praising the donors for the amount of money they contributed to the University, McDonald cited "an impressive increase over the years" in the total amount of scholarship help from the Harvard Clubs. Annual donations have steadily climbed from $21,000 in 1940-41, to just over $64,000 last year.

The funds, McDonald indicated, are awarded to "superior boys who have been approved by the College's Scholarship and Admissions Committees."

This afternoon, Henry and Dana Cotton, Director of Placement in the Graduate School of Education, will talk on the "Role of the Alumni Interviewer" and the "Role of the School's Recommendations" respectively. In the evening, Dean Bundy will speak to the group at a Boston Harvard Club dinner on "Something about Some Things."

The School and Scholarship Committeemen have met on Princeton weekend every two years since 1949, when they stepped up their activities as an important liaison between the College and secondary schools.