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...converting army stores and supplies into a vast collegiate equipment including laboratories, gymnasium, class and demonstration rooms, as well as vocational work-rooms of many sorts, all in a surprisingly short space of time. Although semi-permanent in character, this equipment is amazingly complete. Barring the 60,000 text-books and 40,000 books which comprise the Library, nothing has been sent from this side of the water. Without aid from home, except in this one regard, these Americans in a foreign country have produced from the resources at hand a complete ready-made university, whose 10,000 students have...
...annual old clothes and text-book collection just completed by the Phillips Brooks House Association proved very successful according to the report of the chairman of the canvassing committee. Particular credit is due the Freshman collectors, who as a whole did better work than the upperclassmen...
...destitute students in Switzerland; and the balance to The Cambridge Red Cross for shipment overseas. All of the military equipment will to turned over to the Morgan Memorial Institute, a large social service institution in Boston, which has offered to make over the uniforms into ordinary wearing apparel. The text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library, while the fiction works and magazines will be sent abroad to our soldiers and sailors...
Military equipment: Overcoats, 7; coats, 24; trousers, 17; shirts, 17; sailor suits, 6. Other clothing; suits, 14; over coats, 9; coats with vests, 37; single coats, 37; trousers, 49; shirts, 71; collars, 159; ties, 153; socks, 18 pears.; hats and caps, 57; shoes, 96 prs.; sweaters, 11; undershirts, 8; text-books, 200; other books, 225; magazines...
Today is the last day in the annual old clothes and text-book collection of the Phillips Brooks House Association. Shortly after noon a truck will begin the rounds of the various dormitories to collect the clothes and books that have been gathered. All those who have acted as canvassers during the drive are requested to leave the clothing, textbooks, and magazines which they have collected, either outside their rooms, or just inside their doors if these are unlocked...