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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Medical School, the Stillman Infirmary, Memorial Hall, the Union and Pierce Hall, will of course be in no way affected. Randolph Hall, Apthorp House and the Freshman dormitories get their heat from the Boston Elevated plant, which in turn gets its coal from the Nova Scotia fields, a district not affected by the strike. The outlying buildings of the University, such as the Observatory, which uses soft coal entirely, fortunately have their full supply in the bins...
...graduates living in Boston, a little over six per cent. have made contributions of at least $2,500. The total Boston subscription so far is a trifle more than half the amount it is expected will be raised in the district...
...number of original subscribers have voluntarily doubled, and even tripled, their first subscriptions, but the local committee declared last night that the Harvard men of Boston must be more liberal in the size of their subscriptions if the remaining half of the district's quota is to be secured within a reasonable time...
...solicitors in the Boston district had great difficulty in locating men on their lists on account of the fact that many of them made trips over the weekend. It is expected that the total will increase rapidly after business gets started again...
However, the present totals, though encouraging, are nevertheless misleading, for the donations to date represent only 15 per cent. of the fund "prospects" from the Greater Boston District. This means that there are still 9000 men in the district who have not yet been called on, considerable delay having been caused by incomplete address lists. As a result, it has been announced by Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, chairman of the local committee, that the campaign will continue in Boston until every alumnus in the district has been called upon. This probably means several weeks longer, at the least...