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...memorial to his son, William Henry Meeker '17, who was killed at Pau in an aviation accident on September 11, 1917, Mr. Henry E. Meeker '89 has given to the CRIMSON a library of a thousand volumes. One of the last wishes of Meeker, who was President of the CRIMSON while in College, was that if any thing happened to him while in France, his own library be given to the CRIMSON, and it is in accordance with this wish that the gift has been made...
First, the cost of one camp for five thousand men would be, approximately, not more than two-thirds that of five for a thousand each. Any saving in this way is, of course, to be encouraged...
...organized survey of capabilities and needs, are likely to drift into comparatively unimportant summer employment for which they may not be especially fitted. To be sure, this undertaking would entail considerable expansion of the College Employment Bureau or the creation of a new organization. But the labor or two thousand men for four months is net an insignificant item in the present crisis. Its effective distribution is worth all the effort it would cost...
...results of an effort on the part of the Cambridge Public School Association, in co-operation with Mayor Quinn, to bring the teachers and pupils together and thus to avoid the present waste of time brought about by the general closing of public schools during the coal crisis. Several thousand children in Cambridge below the eighth grade have been enjoying an enforced vacation during the past two weeks because there is no coal to heat their school buildings...
...total Y. M. C. A. Hut Fund subscriptions amounted to $50,287.25. Of this, approximately $20,000 came from Faculty subscriptions through the Cambridge City Committee and approximately $30,000 from student subscriptions. Of the $30,000 subscribed by students, $20,484.57 has been paid in. Thirteen thousand, three hundred dollars have been paid over to the National War Work Council. The balance, $7,184.57 is on account at the Charles River Trust Company, where it is drawing interest at three and one-half per cent...