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...increase of over 25 per cent. It is the hope and intention of the military and University authorities to enroll at least 200 more men before the enlistment period closes next Monday, and in order to accomplish this, recruiting, teams have been appointed and organized to effect a thorough canvass of the University. Every man in the College, and also those in the Graduate Schools and the Law School, will be approached personally by one of the members of the committee within the next few days...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
...annual canvass for funds carried on every fall by Phillips Brooks House will start today under a system different from that ever before employed. It is the aim of those in charge of the collection to obtain $5,000, and to secure this sum three teams have been selected from the Sophomore and Junior classes, the members of which have been assigned to various dormitories. There will be a contest between these teams to collect the most money and reports will be printed in the CRIMSON from day today recording the status of the collectors...
...campaign in spite of the extensive publicity may not bear enough fruit unless each stay-at-home contributes his share. There is to be no individual canvass; no strenuous pursuit on the street. We are asked to give what we can at our public library or at any local bank. So it will be an easy thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers...
...next meeting of the undergraduate committee and subcommittee will be held some time next week, probably Tuesday evening. At that time the men who have been canvassing the various dormitories will report on the result of their work so that some definite knowledge of the number of students who have bought bonds may be obtained. Further plans for the continuing of the canvass will be made...