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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Donor Service of the War Service Committee already this summer has sent 450 pints of blood to the Red Cross, Sedgewick Minot, Jr. '45, head of the drive here, estimates that only 20 per cent of the undergraduates able to donate have given blood...
...minority of five per cent is very eager to help without undue prodding and many have donated a pint again and again, but the Committee has found that a concerted canvassing drive is the most effective way of including the general student to part with some of their blood...
...under 18 cannot give blood and those students under 21 who are unable to secure their parents' permission are prevented from contributing. However at least 60 per cent of the students are eligible to bring the 3,000,000 pint goal one step nearer realization. Adams House with 120 pints to its credit is far in front of the field, while some other Houses lag below...
Seventy-five per cent of all the lost articles find their way back to their owners, even after the possessors in some cases had not seen their belongings in years. Last June, an Eliot House Senior was called into the office to reclaim an overcoat. At first protesting that no coat of his was missing, he turned to an expression of surprise as he identified a black coat that he had lost in the Union in his Freshman years, and which had just found its way into the Lost and Found office...
Most disastrous and improbable turn of the war would be the capture or destruction of the Baku fields themselves, for their wells supply the Russian war machine with 80 per cent of its fuel. Fortunately, Karpovich pointed out, Baku is distant from the present German lines and occupies an easily defended position...