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About $15,000 have been collected out of the $50,044.25 pledged by members of the University in the Red Triangle campaign which ended on November 21, but between $5,000 and $10,000 is already overdue on the amounts pledged before the end of the year. Great difficulty has been encountered in securing payment on the pledges, which the authorities of Phillips Brooks House are anxious to collect, as there is urgent need for all funds available to build the Red Triangle huts in the cantonments in this country and in Europe...
...will send a contribution of clothing to the city of Halifax for the relief of the people who have been deprived of their possessions by the explosion and the resulting fire. A committee of 13 undergraduates has been appointed, which will canvass the dormitories connected with the University and collect everything that would be useful to the citizens of Halifax. All their work, however, must be done before 10 o'clock this morning, since at that time the special truck will leave Phillips Brooks House carrying the University's share collected. This contribution will leave Boston at 12 o'clock...
...canvassing committee started its work last night and will continue it as long as possible this morning. Owing to the lack of time, however, they will not be able to reach every student. Accordingly, members of the University have been asked to collect their own share of clothing and bring it to Phillips Brooks House...
...annual canvass for funds carried on every fall by Phillips Brooks House will start today under a system different from that ever before employed. It is the aim of those in charge of the collection to obtain $5,000, and to secure this sum three teams have been selected from the Sophomore and Junior classes, the members of which have been assigned to various dormitories. There will be a contest between these teams to collect the most money and reports will be printed in the CRIMSON from day today recording the status of the collectors...
...Upon the Signal Corps falls the duty of the speedy dissemination of military intelligence or information. The movement of troops, the forwarding of supplies, in fact, all orders are transmitted over the Signal lines of information. It is also a duty of the signal corps to collect military information, and in the present war, the recording of the pictorial history of war is a function of this corps. An English officer, writing to the London Times, states: 'I am very much surprised to see in the press so little mention of the splendid work of the signal companies. They...