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...conditions arising from the war have affected the class treasury in numerous ways, and have cut down the expenditures under every head, while barely reducing the credits. No class dinner was held last year, and as a result no expense was incurred from this source. A thousand dollars was spent, however, in the purchase of ten $100 Liberty Bonds of the first issue. Seven hundred dollars were also loaned from the class fund to the 1920 Red Book because of the unfavorable conditions for issuing a Freshman Year Book. A large part of this money, however, will be repaid...
Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
...thousand four hundred and ninety men are to be taken from 73 colleges and 20 military schools as well as from the Regular Army, the National Guard and the National Army. All graduates and undergraduates of these institutions, if selected to attend the camps, must enlist for the duration of the war. If at the end of the course they are not recommended for commissions, they will be required to remain in service and finish their enlistment. While students they will receive the pay and allowance of first-class privates, amounting to about $30 per month, plus food, clothing...
...year's enrolment in the American colleges been compiled in so comprehensive a survey as appears on another page of this issue. Arrayed in such a nation-wide summary, the facts of the collegiate contribution to the country's man-power for war stand out very clearly. Twenty-one thousand fewer students are enrolled this year than last in 60 representative colleges and universities. The loss has not been confined to the men who have gone into national service after admission to the undergraduate classes but has also included a diminution of more than 3,000 in this year...
...those lucky twenty-four the CRIMSON offers its congratulations. Against a field of several thousand they proved supreme, and well deserve the distinction they have...