3 Fund Drives Are Set Back By University

Fund drives for General Education, scholarships, and the Medical School have been postponed for the present, University officials reported yesterday.

There will be no major fund drives at the University this winter for the first time in several years. The reason is to "give contributors a rest," officials explained, "and to allow schools to encourage small gifts from large numbers of their alumni."

President Conant's ten-year program, released in 1947, included $3,000,000 for G.E. endowment and $5,000,000 for College scholarships. Nothing has been done since then to get gifts for these two fields, and few gifts have come in unsolicited.

Provest Buck has not explained where the money for the new G.E. building will come from, but there will be no general appeal to raise money for the construction.

"The Medical School will not make any public drive at this time," Dean Berry said yesterday, "but organizational work for the future will continue." The School of Public Health, where a fund drive has also been considered, will instead continue to rely on gifts from foundations and similar groups.

The College, the Business School, and the Harvard Foundation will all solicit alumni for unrestricted annual gifts.