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Through the eleventh hour efforts of the University campaign committee, fifty thousand dollars is Harvard's contribution to the Red Triangle War Fund. It is true of all campaigns that more words of inveigling are directed toward the public than terms of praise after the goal has been reached. The present case, however, demands a general recognition of splendid work. The University has answered the call of this Y. M. C. A. fund in a way which has surpassed our fondest hopes. The subscription was not from a few, but from a great majority, so that we may extend...
...Camps realize how necessary the Y. M. C. A. is to the soldier. It is his home, his theatre and his club house; it is a place of rest after the chaos of trench life. Those who know nothing about Y. M. C. A. work will learn tonight. Two thousand students must be there. Get your tickets at Phillips Brooks House and be on hand to hear the most inspiring talk that has been given here in many a year...
Major Ian Hay Beith of the British Army, author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students of the University, to be held in the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of the talk, as announced by Major Beith, will be "Carrying On," and his words will deal with conditions in the war at present and with his own experiences and impressions during his most recent visit to the trenches on the Western Front...
Major Ian Hay Beith, the well-known author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will deliver an address before a meeting of law and graduate students of the University next Sunday. The meeting will be held in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society, and will be open only to men in the law and graduate schools...
...progress carefully since the beginning. In the summer of 1914 he enlisted in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and spent six months of that fall and winter training at Aldershot, England. Soon afterwards, his regiment was sent to France, where they went into action among "the first hundred thousand...