STUDENT FRIENDSHIP FUND STILL LAGGING

The Student Friendship drive begins the final day of its campaign today with a bleak prospect of raising its quota of $4,000 by the closing hour this evening. At a late hour last night, although more than a third of the collectors' reports were not in the hands of the Committee, the total collection amounted approximately to only $982. The amount is discouragingly low but the committee expects to finish up its final day with the most intensive canvas which it has yet made.

The slowness of the response by the undergraduates to the appeal of the drive this year is unparalleled during the four years that it has been undertaken. Last year more than five times the amount was raised in the same time and in 1923 the quota was completed at the same stage of the drive. The committee had hoped by somewhat shortening the length of the campaign to facilitate collection by cutting down on the period of option for subscription, but the method has seemingly not proved so effectual so far as was expected.

Today will be absolutely the last day for subscriptions and the final statements of all the collectors must be made to the committee by tonight. The committee still feels that the final effort today will be the determining factor in the result of the drive and will put the budget up to the desired goal. It will hold its regular office hours in the Varsity Club from 6 to 12 o'clock this evening to receive last minute individual contributions.