If both husband and wife give, the gifts to one person could total $24,000.

So far the fund has received 10,654 gifts totaling $7,814,499, less than $200,000 short of $8 million.

In 1998, the fund received 53,000 gifts totaling $10.3 million.

Last year, the fund received 55,627 gifts totaling $5.2 million.

On September 2, 2009, the university announced it had received private gifts totaling $24.3 million.

The first appeal, in 1912, received 117 gifts totaling $3,630.88.

Five gifts totaling $2.5 million have come in the last two months to cover operating expenses.

Following an initial donation of $100,000, she made gifts totaling $3 million.

Her recent $12 million came on top of other gifts totaling $15 million.

As of yesterday, gifts to the 75th appeal totaled $2,717,840.96.