COUNCIL LAUNCHES DRIVE FOR BUDGET

The resolution passed by the Student Council last spring to the effect that the numerous collections for money during the college year would be eliminated and replaced by a single intensive drive for a Student Council Budget at the beginning of each college year will become an actuality today. In the registration envelopes at Hemenway Gymnasium will be found. Budget Pledge cards which every student will be expected to fill out and hand in at the designated tables on leaving the registration buildings.

P. B. H. Will Get $5,000

The quota of $10,000 will be allotted as follows: $5,000 to the Phillips Brooks Association, $3,000 to the Class Funds, and the remainder to the Student Council for its own expenses, charities and incidental expenses.

In order that the Budget may be completed, the Pledge Card states that it will be necessary for all students who can afford it to donate over five dollars. Cash or checks for the amount pledged will be received at the Budget Table during registration. Bills will be sent out to those who do not care to pay immediately at the end of November of this year. The funds and their collection will be in the hands of the Treasurer of the Student Council and the treasurers of the upper classes, these four forming a Finance Committee with the first named acting as chairman.

Barnes Explains New Plan

The reasons for the inauguration of the Budget are explained in an extract from a report submitted to the Student Council by J. F. Barnes '27 last spring. "Hitherto," the report says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body."