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...order to raise funds for the University Flying Corps, plans for a canvass of all undergraduates interested in this branch of preparedness work have been made. Dormitory collectors will be appointed and a thorough canvass made. It is desired to raise a sum of at least $2,500--a sum sufficient to pay the rent of a flying field for one year. The principal expenses of the Corps will be met by graduates, but a certain amount of pecuniary support is expected from the undergraduates. Before the end of the week the Corps will mail to 20,000 graduates...
During the summer of 1915 we made a personal canvass of over sixty places in Boston, Roxbury, and Brookline where rooms were available, and in some cases board, for men in the Medical School. As a result of this personal canvass we were able to publish in August a room-registry containing the names and addresses of people desiring to let rooms to our students, as well as the number and prices of both single and double rooms and the cost of table board, if such was available. Copies of this room-registry were placed with the Dean...
...Dartmouth, training began a week ago, with a drill in wall-scaling. While primarily an infantry battalion, there will be a corps of 20 men who will study camp sanitation and similar subjects. It is expected to form a wireless unit in the signal corps also. A canvass of the college shows a proportion of three men opposed to two men unopposed to incorporating military instruction into the curriculum of the college. Outside drill and target practice will be taken up after the Easter recess, and arrangements are now being made for the construction of rifle ranges...
There will be a canvass of the University dormitories this evening and tomorrow evening to sell tickets for the debate with Princeton in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. No other subscription will be taken for the debating team, this canvass being its sole support. Tickets, at 25, 50, or 75 cents, may also be purchased from the Cooperative Branch, Amee Brothers, or Matthews...
...above sum forms a part of the New England contribution to the United States National Fund for Jewish Sufferers in the War Zone. This national canvass is in the hands of a committee, of which Louis D. Brandeis, LL.B. '77, is one of the directors...