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...published. This sum was in addition to the annual payment from the trustees under the will of Gordon McKay, but included the amount of $432,900, which was a part of the Endowment Fund of $10.000,000 to be raised for the University by the Alumni. This Endowment Fund campaign was postponed last spring and will not be resumed until after the close...
President Wilson's order for the reorganization of the Department of Labor means that the United States has learned one great lesson in the war. The Government now recognizes that this successful prosecution of the military campaign requires the mobilization, distribution and conservation of workers. It is a lesson we should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them...
...securities to the value of $89,946.50 from James Byrne '77, of New York City, to establish the "Byrne Professorship of Administrative Law." The securities are the first payment towards a total foundation of $150,000, which was given originally when the Law School started last spring its campaign to obtain a million dollars. The securities in the meantime have been transferred to the University Endowment Fund...
About $15,000 have been collected out of the $50,044.25 pledged by members of the University in the Red Triangle campaign which ended on November 21, but between $5,000 and $10,000 is already overdue on the amounts pledged before the end of the year. Great difficulty has been encountered in securing payment on the pledges, which the authorities of Phillips Brooks House are anxious to collect, as there is urgent need for all funds available to build the Red Triangle huts in the cantonments in this country and in Europe...
...increased membership drive in the University has been a part of the nation-wide campaign to enroll ten million new members before Christmas Eve. Reports from Washington as to the outcome of the attempt are very favorable, indicating that mobilized Red Cross workers are obtaining heavy enrollments in every section of the country. New England's quota, however, of one million new members is being reached very slowly...