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Dining Hall subscription drives have pushed 1946 Album sales up over the 50 percent mark, according to an announcement by Album officers yesterday. In an attempt to raise the sales further, a room-to-room drive will be undertaken this weekend...
...would help us out a lot if those who wish to contribute would leave checks with their roommates, or on their mantles," said Robinson. "Over 80 percent of the men we have seen wanted to give, and we feel certain that many more whom we haven't been able to reach would like to make a contribution...
...unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that baflies every charity with a mailing list. Where experts consider a ten percent return on letters average, the Food Relief quota for commuters has necessarily been placed at close to seventy percent. Minor difficulties such as distaste for the gummy side of stamps, lack of ink, and the ever-present aversion to mailing a letter should not, deter any student or faculty member...
...last summer brought, as a testament of gratitude from students there, two board and room scholarships for Harvard students. Of the $25,000 to be raised in the present drive, $21,000 is divided among the Universities of Warsaw, Athens, Peking, and Vienna, schools where hunger and a forty percent tubercular rate compete for the lives of students. The remaining $4000 buys food for Harvard's own baby, a summer rest school at Salzburg, Austria, where 100 of the best European students will be taught by leading men from our own faculty...
South of the Mason-Dixon Line, peculiar problems present themselves. Neither property values or income levels are sufficient to raise adequate funds for decent schools. Mississippi, for example, spends 3.4 percent of its income for education as compared to New York's 2.5 percent. But in the former this adds up to only $400 per schoolroom per year, as opposed to $4000 for the same use in the Empire State. And the southern dual school system, with separate buildings and expensive duplication because of Jim Crow, adds to the difficulty. Clearly, many of these states cannot afford good schools...