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Down at Yale, they make a big deal over charity. Like frisbee and Ivy Magazine, like snowball riots and football movies, giving is "shoe." At Harvard, if you can't afford to throw it away, you can't afford to give it away. Harvardmen being as self-conscious as they are, a gift of too much is as embarrassing as a gift of too little.
This attitude, needless to say, is unfortunate. For, like Pogo and Andres Segovia, like Li'l Abner and Beet-hoven's Ninth, generosity is a fine and beautiful thing. What is ten dollars? Two long-play records, three first balcony seats, 700-odd cigarettes, two Elsie's meal tickets. If it were not for the awkward business of writing out a check and deciding whether or not to feel magnanimous, the whole charity affair would be quite painless.
To make charity easy, solicitors for the Combined Charities have started their canvassing. Even in these days of billion-big sums, every dollar helps.
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