COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN AT HARVARD-YALE GAME

Between the halves of the Yale game a collection will be taken up for the American Ambulance Corps in France, the Harvard Surgical Unit, and the Polish Relief Committee. The Corporation has granted permission for this collection, which will be taken up under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association.

In regard to this collection the CRIMSON prints below a communication from Dallas D. L. McGrew '03, of the Boston Journal. Mr. McGrew went to France to serve with the American Ambulance Corps last January, returning to this country in July. While there he was in charge of one of the ambulance squads. He is at present engaged in recruiting for the ambulance service and all those who wish to join should notify him at 202 Washington street, Boston.

"It is none too well known to graduates and undergraduates alike that the name of Harvard University is becoming, along the Western battle-front in Europe, synonymous with generosity, courage, and devotion to humane service. The two hospitals of the Ambulance Americaine in France are supported by American money and operated by American surgical skill, which has won for them pre-eminent place, recognized by the military and medical authorities on the Continent. Harvard has already contributed a surgical unit from her medical school for a three months tour of service, and other surgeons who are Harvard men are now there in the Lycee Pasteur and at Juilly doing brilliant work.

"The transportation organization of the Ambulance, known as the field service, is under the active direction of a man-long identified with Harvard--A. Platt Andrew, and more than fifty other Harvard men are serving or have served in this branch of work. At present there are over 150 motor-cars in the field service, which has won by its efficiency the distinction of sole charge of the transport of wounded in two important sectors of the line. One American section as a whole and nearly a score of American drivers have won the coveted decoration--the Croix de Guerre--which France gives for courageous and brilliant service. During its existence of fourteen months the field service of the Ambulance has carried more than 125,000 wounded, and its growing capacity and efficiency will soon have doubled the number.

"Americans, then, and especially the men of the University that has so closely associated its name with this splendid work, cannot afford to let its activities lag for want of support. The service needs men, and its needs money.

"The Harvard-Yale game at the Stadium next Saturday offers us an opportunity. If a collection of money is to be made there, the fund could be put to no nobler use, or devoted to a more helpful and humane purpose, than that of providing support and additional equipment for the field service of the Ambulance Americaine in France.

"And let me suggest that since already several of our motor-ambulances carry upon their sides the names of their doners--Wellesley College, St. Paul's, Phillips Andover, Pomfret, and a number of other schools, it would be not only a welcome addition to the service but a gratification to us at home and at the front if a few more cars bearing the name of Harvard could be sent out in that great and merciful work.

"And we must not forget that money spent thus will go to strengthen international friendship and trust, and to lay deeper the foundations for future peace."