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The Combined Charities Drive

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For the fiscally solvent, there is no reason not to give to the Combined Charities drive. A few inveterate gradgrinds may try to justify their parsimony by insisting that the Combined Charities Committee selected the wrong charities for its recommend list. A quick perusal of this list should, however convince even the most tight-walleted that the Committee's fault, if any, was one of omission, not of commission. And the Drive leaders not only permit, encourage students to "write-in" their choice if it is not on the list. This good advice should be taken by all, as should the Drive Committee's other prominent suggestion: that each student give at least $10 to this carefully planned and important once-a-year campaign.

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