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Today the annual drive carried on by the Phillips Brooks House Association, for the collection of text books no longer needed by students in the University will open, and will continue for one week. All the books which are obtained will be placed in the Text Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House, where they will be lent to students in the fall. The campaign is being carried out under the leadership of E. L. Peirson, Jr., '21, Librarian of the Association...
...believe, this initial donation is but the first step in a drive for richer and more profitable results in education, it will tend toward the eventual raising of the whole standard of American education,' and of the esteem in which. American schoolmasters and instructors are held. Certainly thanks are due for this generous appropriation to Mr. John D. Rockefeller and the General Educational Board of which he is chairman, from all college men who are interested in the broad subject of American culture...
This week a drive is in progress to raise funds to carry on the work of the Salvation Army at home. It must be remembered that none of the money collected in the United War Work campaign last fall may be used for the work of this organization among the needy civilians...
Much has been written of late in the papers which shows the splendid work that the Salvations Army has performed among the soldiers in France. Many conclusive proofs have been recorded, indicative of the character of this organization. Although no drive will be conducted in the University, any student who is desirous of contributing to a worthy cause, can do a great good by subscribing to the Salvation Army drive this week...
...Government are on the way to most of the men in College, and that the practice of thrift is never to be regretted. If the Freshmen will arouse from their state of inertia and pay up the pledges made at their mass meeting last Monday, the end of the drive will be in sight. We have no doubt that the payment of this obligation will be performed, and in such circumstances the University will be in a position to oversubscribe the quota. Let every one audit for a final time his account books and discover some means for producing five...