Early College Document in Library

The Library has lately received, through the generosity of Mr. Percy S. Straus '97, of New York, a most interesting original document connected with the early history of the College, the original subscription paper of the Town and Church of Concord, Mass., in which the several residents pledged themselves to give collectively five pounds a year for the support of the College for seven years, and it is signed by twenty-five or thirty of the inhabitants of Concord at that time. It represents one of the first attemps to raise money for the support of the College--a true predecessor of the Endowment Campaign of the present day. When it was put up at auction at a recent Harvard dinner in New York, it brought in $2000 to the present Endowment Fund.