Alumni Clubs

Although it has never been denied that alumni clubs are important factors in keeping graduates in touch with the college, it is probably also true that no one has ever known just how much of a factor they were. It is not certain, indeed, that anyone knows even now, but some statistics gathered by Harvard would seem to throw significant light on the problem. The university has made a careful compilation of the number of men who voted in the last postal ballot for overseers and gone to some trouble to determine exactly what percentage of graduates in each state had enough interest in their college to return their ballots. In general, two conclusions seemed to be reached. The first is that the East does not have any particular advantage over the West or the South as regards interest in Harvard. The Massachusetts and New York percentages--32 and 31--are high, but so are those of Illinois (81), Wisconsin and Arkansas (35) and Missouri (32). Boston Transcript.