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...with these thoughts in mind that the Crimson determined to devote an issue to the great professor. We have tried to collect from the men who knew him best something that would catch the real Kitty. We asked them not to tell the old, familiar stories that repetition has altered but to give their own ideas of what Professor Kittredge meant to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Friends, Students, and Associates Pay Tribute to George Lyman Kittredge | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

...drive to collect funds pledged to the Student Council will take place in the middle of October, announced Treasurer John P. Bunker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCILLORS ORGANIZE IN COMMITTEES | 9/27/1941 | See Source »

...prices last spring. Last year, to make matters worse, Szechwan, Chiang Kai-shek's base province, had a crop failure. Its yield fell off almost 50%. To prevent hoarding, to make certain of Army and urban rice supplies, Chiang's Government this summer decided to collect the land tax in grain (almost exclusively rice), not money. With a better 1941 harvest in the offing, Free China is faced with no immediate famine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN FRONT: The Battle of Rice | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...method of collection of pledges. From the success of the Yale Budget drive it seemed that an intensive door-to-door canvass in the middle of October, backed by considerable publicity in the CRIMSON, might be the best sort of drive, but because of the difficulties that might arise from a sudden switch from the present method, the following compromise was suggested by Gene Keith, and I would recommend that it be adopted for next year. The regular pledges and collections will be made in Memorial Hall preceded by a sizeable article in the registration issue of the Crimson which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report of the Treasurer of the Student Council '41-42 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Considerable thought and attention was given during the year to the method of collecting the Student Council funds. Letters were written to the Community Fund and Red Cross (see files) requesting them not to run drives in the College this year, in order to strengthen the Council's position for a concentrated drive next year. Both of these organizations were willing to cooperate, and although the Red Cross received a part of the money collected in the War Relief Drive, the Community Fund was deprived of the $400-$500 which they usually collect from undergraduates in a separate drive. Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report of the Treasurer of the Student Council '41-42 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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