Show o 0 Alumni Raise Funds for New Field eld Nt The Alumni association true to the spirit of the organization came forward forward forward for for- ward last spring to help the school schoot meet a. a crying need and built for the B. B A. A C C. a new athletic field Jim Urie Uric president of the association organized his forces force I to put the thing over Drive for funds began as did i ithe the work on the construction As the work progressed money was placed Inthe in inthe inthe the bank for payment of the labor When the field is II complete it will be practically paid for If this were the only thing that the alumni had none Bone one for the school it would in itself be a splendid achievement achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment but it is il only one of the many things Last year the same association assocIation association tion under the presidency of C. C E. E Riddle raised six thousand dollars toward the construction of the new gymnasium We are generally prone to rate an alumni organization as a dead member mem memo ber her of an institution The one at the Branch during the last few years has been one of the liveliest and most en en- Alumni through out the land have been the same Harvard Alumni have Nave contributed to the university while that of Princeton Princeton Princeton Prince- Prince ton contributed Both Bothof Bothof Bothof of these contributions were made to the general maintenance funds of the Institutions In the year of 1910 the alumnae of Smith college gave to that institution The Alumnae at that time numbered making an average contribution of a piece Princeton's alumni contributed contributed contributed con con- an average of a piece to the drive for maintenance funds Ten thousand alumni of Cornell gave an average anage of each for a gift to their alma mater Alumni organizations have been active active ac ae tive along various other lines The alumni secretaries association has published two manuals giving inform- inform tion regarding the various organizations organizations and a great number of alumni associations publish regularly official bulletins The Yale Alumni directory is s a book of 1050 pages Harvard's has las 1189 pages Michigan's has 1379 pages These Thes directories give the name address occupation and other information about the graduates and sometimes of students who have on only y been in attendance at the institution In 1924 Alumni organizations printed two hundred and four magazines magazines magazines maga maga- with a total circulation of These magazines deal with the activities of the Alma Alms Mater the graduates and important and interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting events touching both The alumni of the American college and university is II one of the of of the institution As long at ai the spirit which permeates it now exists no force will wiD be able to destroy that fundamental element of American life o o |