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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard United War Work Campaign conducted under the auspices of the Brooks House Association were most satisfactory, for counting the subscriptions made by members of the Faculty, a total of just under $40,000 was collected. The Red Cross Membership Campaign, conducted by T. R. Thayer '21, during the last week before vacation, enrolled 400 as members...
...Executive Cabinet with the vice-president acting as president in the absence of R. Emmet '19. The first work of the Cabinet was to conduct a brief financial campaign in the University and Graduate Schools. The amount collected in this, together with that of the smaller campaign held last autumn, was $4,690, a total greater than even last year's subscription of $4,346.44. Such results are very gratifying, but one cannot help feeling that, if the number of contributions indicates the amount of interest and sympathy in the student body for the work of the Association, there ought...
...plan instituted last year for promoting discussion and thought among the students on present day political, economic, and social questions was renewed this year with equal success and interest. Weekly Discussion Groups, led by a professor or instructor, have been held since the beginning of the year under the direction of the Christian Association of Brooks House with entirely satisfactory results. A series of discussion meetings, called "A Forum for Harvard Men," were begun on February 11, when Professor Wiener talked to 160 students on "Bolshevism" and subsequent meetings were addressed by Professor Munro, Professor Carver, President Eliot and others...
...items listed under "Military and Naval Aid" were numerous and large. The Y. M. C. A. Hut at the Naval Radio School, which had been doubled in size and operations since the last treasurer's report, cost $213.91 to be maintained from June 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year, to August 1, when it was taken over by the National Y. M. C. A. During the summer $255.61 was expended on stationery and entertainment for the R. O. T. C. in the Cambridge barracks and at Camp Thayer...
...this the returned members of the College and Graduate Schools responded generously with $3,036.58, which sum although $1,026.27 less than the collection of 1917-18, was very encouraging from a little more than half-filed University. It must be remembered, too, that the $1,698.76 taken in last fall was in large part given by the Harvard men in the S. A. T. C. Thus the total collection from the University for the year was $4,735.34, exceeding the 1917 figures by $672.49. D. C. HAWKINS...