Y. M. C. A. PLEDGES

The University's subscription to the Y. M. C. A. Red Triangle Fund was a topic of conversation throughout the country. That Harvard with so small a number of students could pledge over fifty thousand dollars to this work was proof of the splendid spirit of those few men who had to stay at home. But the pledging is very much less than half the tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges is ordinarily no easy work since they are so widely scattered. This gift of the University was not from a few, but from the whole body of students. Let us expedite this work by turning in our money at Phillips Brooks House before some outside cynic again breaks forth in a sinister analysis of Harvard indifference.