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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final figures on the Red Triangle War Work Campaign which were compiled yesterday by the subscription committee showed a total of $50,044.25 collected during the short three-day campaign. No. of Subscribers. Amount Total 3 $5,000 $15,000 10 1,000 10,000 8 500 4,000 1 350 350 4 300 1,200 1 255 255 4 250 1,000 7 200 1,400 1 175 175 5 150 750 1 140 140 1 120 120 44 100 4,400 Total, $38,790 Lesser amounts, $11,254.25 Grand total...
Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps...
Through the eleventh hour efforts of the University campaign committee, fifty thousand dollars is Harvard's contribution to the Red Triangle War Fund. It is true of all campaigns that more words of inveigling are directed toward the public than terms of praise after the goal has been reached. The present case, however, demands a general recognition of splendid work. The University has answered the call of this Y. M. C. A. fund in a way which has surpassed our fondest hopes. The subscription was not from a few, but from a great majority, so that we may extend...
...fourth of the series of University War Lectures will be delivered this evening by Professor Wallace C. Sabine, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and University Exchange Professor to France last year. The talk will be given in the New Lecture Hall at 8.15 o'clock, and Professor Sabine will speak on the subject: "Aviation and the War...
These lectures will be given every Wednesday evening at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. The speakers will be chosen from members of the Faculty, Alumni and others who are qualified to speak on subjects connected with the war. Students who wish to suggest some topic or some lecturer for these meetings are requested to speak to Dean Haskins...