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SERVING THE CAUSE unanimity, but it remained a considerable factor in school spirit. A 1970 survey conducted by the faculty committee on athletic scholarships resulted in the conclusion that 35 percent of the students were attending athletic events on a regular basis and 55 percent on an irregular basis. More than two-thirds favored continuation of grants reserved for athletes and a majority wanted to see the College remain in the university division. One of the most important developments after 1970 was a significant increase in the amount of intramural as well as individual athletic activity. While it might be difficult to determine how much this activity contributed to school spirit, it cannot be ignored. In 1985, as in 1945, the College choir and other musical organizations and, in their own ways, the fraternities continued to nourish both tradition and spirit. None of these organizations embraced the entire student body as did the academic honor system, beginning in the fall of 1957. Imperfect instrument though it proved to be during the ensuing twenty-eight years, the honor system nevertheless summoned both students and faculty to develop and sustain a spirit centrally related to the main purposes of the institution.268 Alumni The organized alumni effort which was in place in the fall of 1945 had been in existence in that form since 1929 and had been in charge of C. Paul Cessna since 1937. By means of the quarterly alumni bulletin and correspondence Cessna kept in touch with individual alumni and tried to cultivate their interest as one of the key constituencies of the College. It was his responsibility to encourage and promote the activities of each of about twenty-five alumni clubs. Working with Alumni Association leaders, he administered the annual Loyalty Fund, which between the time of its inception in 1933 and the end of the 1944-1945 year had yielded slightly more than $100,000. Finally, the alumni secretary coordinated the various activities during fall homecoming and commencement weekend which brought many former students back to the campus. The alumni program was perforce curtailed during the war, but it was not abandoned. Once hostilities ended, plans were made to resume the usual schedule of events. The first postwar fall homecoming, for 268Ninety-five members of the class of 1983 who responded to a senior survey ranked the things about the College which they wanted to see preserved in this order: fraternity life (although they thought social life should be less dependent on fraternities), relatively small size (the friendliness of students and faculty, they reported, was an important consideration in bringing them to Gettysburg), the honor code, and the beauty of the campus. Members of the class of 1982 who responded to a similar survey reached similar conclusions. 96