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$50,044.25 FOR Y. M. C. A.

TOTALS OF UNIVERSITY CANVASS FAR EXCEED APPOINTED MAXIMUM.

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The final figures on the Red Triangle War Work Campaign which were compiled yesterday by the subscription committee showed a total of $50,044.25 collected during the short three-day campaign. No. of Subscribers.  Amount  Total 3  $5,000  $15,000 10  1,000  10,000 8  500  4,000 1  350  350 4  300  1,200 1  255  255 4  250  1,000 7  200  1,400 1  175  175 5  150  750 1  140  140 1  120  120 44  100  4,400 Total,    $38,790 Lesser amounts,    $11,254.25 Grand total,    $50,044.25

The results were far above the highest expectations, for the University's minimum allotment of $25,000 was doubled in the collection and the maximum of $40,000 was surpassed by more than $10,000. The collection was one of the largest ever made in the University, and proved an unqualified success.

Arthur S. Johnson '85, head of the Boston Y. M. C. A., and director of the Red Triangle Fund Campaign of Metropolitan Boston, praised the work which has been done by the Red Triangle Committee in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. His statement is as follows:

Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps at home and over the sea some of the home comforts and joys they are voluntarily depriving themselves of, by contributing liberally for the support of this work. By this expression of spirit our men will not only receive great material benefit, but they will also know that Harvard is with them all the time.

"The work done by your committee is excellent, and I consider the highest praise due to those who directed the campaign and to those who actually put it into execution."

The results were far above the highest expectations, for the University's minimum allotment of $25,000 was doubled in the collection and the maximum of $40,000 was surpassed by more than $10,000. The collection was one of the largest ever made in the University, and proved an unqualified success.

Arthur S. Johnson '85, head of the Boston Y. M. C. A., and director of the Red Triangle Fund Campaign of Metropolitan Boston, praised the work which has been done by the Red Triangle Committee in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. His statement is as follows:

Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps at home and over the sea some of the home comforts and joys they are voluntarily depriving themselves of, by contributing liberally for the support of this work. By this expression of spirit our men will not only receive great material benefit, but they will also know that Harvard is with them all the time.

"The work done by your committee is excellent, and I consider the highest praise due to those who directed the campaign and to those who actually put it into execution."

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