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More than 1,000 members of the University have been enrolled in the Red Cross by the undergraduate campaign this week, according to advance reports from the committee in charge of the drive. Definite figures on the number of memberships secured from the College and the Graduate Schools have not yet been compiled, since the reports of all the workers have not been turned in. According to R. E. Gross '19, chairman of the committee, the number of memberships already reported warrants the statement that over 1,000 students are now members of the organization. "Everyone who is approached...
Between 400 and 500 students of the University have already enrolled in the Christmas campaign to increase the membership in the Red Cross. The committee in charge of the canvassing of the University, headed by R. E. Gross '19, will continue their work until tomorrow night at which time it is hoped that considerably more than 1000 memberships will have been secured from the College and the Graduate Schools. One million members from New England, outside of Connecticut is the quota that is asked by the national organization...
...service I believe to be co-operation with the American Red Cross. Such co-operation can be effected best through membership; and all those who by reason of sex, age or physical disability, are prevented from going to the front are being urged to join during the Christmas membership campaign starting December 16 and ending Christmas Eve. In that week the Red Cross hopes-- and confidently expects--to get ten million new members--at least...
...interesting, and frequently more amusing. Today four candidates are so sure that they are to be people's choice that they have left off old-time political methods and placed the matter in the hands of that mysterious figure, the Common People. There has been no bitterness in this campaign; it has been a question of impressing upon the public how small a chance the other three opponents had of walking into the City Hall in an official capacity. A voter and a gambler both enjoy picking a winner. But if a voter were to take all the recent campaign...
...Mexican war, and described the unfortunate results which have been caused by it. Professor Johnston attacked first the theory of recruiting and hastily equipping a mob of recruits with no previous military experience. Statements made by General Meade, Kirby Smith and McClellan at the close of the Mexican campaign agreed in the assertation that the volunteers were not only inefficient and unmanageable, but that they murdered and pillaged wherever they went...