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manufacturers of Worcester in December, at a Worcester-Club meeting called by George F. Fuller, president of the WymanGordon Co.; another supper meeting for a larger group was held at the gymnasium in January. By February, 1920, twentyseven scholarships had been pledged. This number was later increased to thirty-two, a substantial portion of the new endowment.

The sustaining scholarships received up to the end of the year 1924, with their values in thousands of dollars, included: Norton Co. (60), Crompton & Knowles Loom Works (40), Reed & Prince Mfg. Co. (40), Morgan Construction Co. (40), American Steel & Wire Co. (35), Wyman-Gordon Co. (20), Heald Machine Co. (15), Leland Gifford Co. (10), Riley Stoker Co. (10), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (10), Graton & Knight Mfg. Co. (10), Strathmore Paper Co. (10), American Bosch Magneto Co. (5). Two other scholarships of the same type, $10,000 each, from private donors were added during the campaign. One was the gift of Francis A. Harrington, former mayor of Worcester and father of two Institute graduates, the other the gift of Mrs. Rebecca A. Morgan, in memory of her husband, Charles Hill Morgan, longtime trustee.

The answer that the General Education Board made to Dr. Hollis' application for assistance was that $350,000 of Rockefeller money would be contributed to the Institute if alumni and friends contributed $650,000 for general purposes. This defined the goal even more specifically, and made its achievement imperative. As in all similar campaigns, a large proportion of the sum had to be anticipated from a small selected group. Members of this special group were personally solicited early in the campaign. The approach to the larger number of alumni was postponed until publicity material had had time to make favorable impressions.

This publicity material, sent out over Mr. Morgan's signature, was at once simple and effective. It consisted of a series of small booklets: "The Tin Peddler's Dream," "The

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