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President Lowell has received a letter from the headquarters of the Belgian Red Cross in La Panne, where a large part of the Belgian army is now located, acknowledging the receipt of one of the five motor ambulances for which the money was raised here early in the winter...
...With further reference to your letter of the twenty-sixth of January, in which you informed me of the shipment of four motor ambulances for Great Britain, I have received Sir Edward Grey's instructions to express the grateful acknowledgement of His Majesty's government for this generous gift from Yale and Harvard students. I should be much obliged if you would kindly inform the donors of the warm appreciation felt by the British government for the sympathy and consideration which prompted their actions...
Baseball leads, with an attendance of 9,000,000; football is second with 6,292,000, and about 1,000,000 people witnessed the various forms of horse racing throughout the country. Motor races of different kinds drew 500,000 people, track sports a similar number, polo matches 125,000; tennis 150,000 and rowing regattas 425,000. It is estimated that 1,500,000 people witnessed boxing matches and the remainder of the total is made up from the attendance at golf, cricket, hockey, lacrosse and yachting events...
...McGrew '03 sailed from New York on January 16 to join the motor service of the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris...
...University Red Cross Committee has found it possible to purchase five motor ambulances with the money raised on the late Tag Day instead of only four as originally planned. The cars are to be furnished by the Ford Company, and will be equipped with all the latest conveniences for attending the wounded...