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...What of the future? Your committee wishes every Harvard alumnus to do his bit towards the memorial to those 376 men, each of whom, God knows, did his bit. But the simple, unescapable laws of arithmetic intrude when one talks about $1,000,000 and, if our goal is to be reached, those who can be must be very generous. Your committee felt that if it circularized our 44,000 graduates without a preliminary sounding out for large subscriptions, the result would fall so far short that Harvard indifference would be a bitter jest when applied to a subject...
...aiding in a worthy cause for the University; the second is that I am taking your circulars at their word and subscribing what I can afford at the present time; and the third is that very shortly I hope to be in a position to contribute a good bit more Until then, I want to join hands with the well-wishers of Harvard...
...staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...inning after Booth had given way to a pinchhitter, but he allowed the Purple sluggers no hits, retiring them in one-two-three order in the last half of the eighth inning. The Sophomore's last start was against today's invaders, when he did not allow a bit for five innings. In the sixth he was touched for a lone bingle, and in the seventh he was removed after walking three men and allowing another to hit safely...
With the exception of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, no appeal has been made to the adult population. It has been essentially a children's affair and it is the desire of the Navy Department to ultimately offer each child in the nation the opportunity to do its bit in saving this historic treasure...