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Members of the University who were not present at the Mass Meeting Wednesday, may subscribe for the additional gift to be given to the Cruiser Harvard, by leaving contributions with the book-keeper in the CRIMSON office...
...mass meeting held in the Fogg Museum last night for the purpose of raising money enough to present the cruiser "Harvard" with a set of colors a sum was raised which added to that already raised by the Faculty amounted to 165 dollars. As this is 100 dollars more than the sum required to purchase the colors, the surplus is to be used in providing a second gift. It was voted that J. H. Perkins '98 appoint a committee of five to choose the givt and raise whatever further funds may be necessary...
...fact that the suggestion of giving colors to the cruiser was so enthusiastically received as to bring contributions to more than twice the total needed, is enough to prove that there is no indifference here, and all who heard the words of the President, of Colonel Higginson, and of Professor Shaler, will agree that in them we find expression of true Harvard opinion...
...mass meeting of members of all departments of the University will be called to order in the Fogg Lecture Room promptly at 7.15 this evening. As announced yesterday, the purpose of the meeting is to raise money enough to give the cruiser Harvard a set of colors, and in order that they may be purchased immediately, it is important that a sufficient sum be raised on the spot. To this end all are asked to come prepared to contribute. Those who can afford it will be expected to give at least fifty cents, and others according to their means...
There are at present about thirty Harvard men mustered or enlisted in the Massachusett's Volunteer Naval Reserves, though only about half that number have actually volunteered in the regular U. S. Navy. Of the latter, the following men have been sent to the U. S. converted cruiser Prairie, the deep sea patrol boat for the New England coast: W. S. Burgess 1901, C. N. King '98, F. Woodbridge 1L., G. H. Dorr 1L, J. B. Moulton '98, F. M. Newton. The two latter men have enlisted as boat swain's mate and coxswain, respectively. B. F. Bell...