Records of the Assistant to the President : miscellaneous charts and statistics, 1947-1959 (inclusive).

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Records of the Assistant to the President : miscellaneous charts and statistics, 1947-1959 (inclusive).

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Contains miscellaneous charts and tables. Includes the 1948 and 1949 organizational charts of the Office of the Special Adviser to the President which included the Assistant to the President, and a four-year (1948-52) projected activity chart of the office. Also includes several charts on gifts and bequests to Harvard from 1880 to 1948 for the construction of Harvard buildings; gifts and government contracts to Harvard, 1951-1956; and the estimated termination of 15 trusts, 1950-1959, related to Harvard Medical School. Other charts and statistics concern gifts and bequests to Harvard, 1920-1947; growth of Harvard Endowment, 1919-1947; Harvard yearly income, 1918-1947; the Harvard Fund, 1940-1947; and annual giving to Alumni Funds, 1943-1946 and 1950-1957. These are records relating to the responsibilities and interests of the Assistant to the President, James R. Reynolds.

0.5 cubic foot in one portfolio folder

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Harvard University Archives.

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Reynolds, James R.

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