Their Relation to Higher Educational Finance 
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Form 3. 
CONFIDENTIAL REFERENCE 
REGARDING STUDENT APPLICANT FOR A LOAN 
FROM THE 
Harmon Foundation 
INCORPORATED 
,*who is a Student at 
has applied to the Student Loan Committee 
for a loan from the Harmon Fund. Loans are awarded only to worthy students of proved ability whose 
means of support are dependent wholly or in part on their own labor. Preference is ^iven the deserving 
Student who will not make the loan a complete Substitution for outside work, the one whose heaith or 
College grades may be in danger if extra aid is not obtained. 
He has referred to you as one who knows the pecuniary cifcumstances of his family. Will you 
therefore be good enough to furnish the Information asked for below ? Applications will not be approved 
until the replies from references are returned. 
Your answers to the following questions may be given on this sheet if you desire but we should 
appreciate an estimate of the applicant’s character on your own letterhead. Kindly send your reply to the 
Chairman of the Student Loan Committee in the enclosed, self-addressed envelope. 
The information you furnish us will be treated as strictly confidential. 
Sincerely yours, 
Chairman, Student Loan Committee 
College 
1. How Iong have you known the applicant? 
2. ln your opihiom, does this Student come within the dass 
of students mentioned in paragraph one above? 
3. What is your judgment of the applicant’s character and financial reliability? 
4. Do you consider this Student thoroughly dependable and the sort of a person to whom you might 
lend money yourself with confidence? 
Signa Iure of Reference 
Date. 
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