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College Endowment Boosted $25 by Laundryman's Gift

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Latest contribution to University coffers for the general support of the College was an unrestricted gift of $25 in cash recently received from a Chinese benefactor, Jan Quen of Jamaica Plain. Last week Quen, a Boston laundryman, walked into the office of Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation, to make a donation which included six boxes of Chinese ginger wrapped in a laundry bill.

Given in appreciation of Harvard's recognition of Chinese culture, the presentation was accompanied by a letter in quite Oriental grammar.

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