The student committee which has in charge the subscription for the proposed library reading room may well feel proud of the work which has been done, and can rest assured that the large amount of money they have raised from the students, already overburdened with demands for help, will act as a forcible argument for the urgency of the object. This morning a circular will be sent to many thousand of the alumni asking for aid. This circular expresses the feeling of the officers of the university and of the undergraduates; it is re-enforced with a statement of the student subscription and also with a list of the alumni committee which contains so many well-known names that of itself it must carry great weight. Anyone who receives this notice must be convinced that a reading room is the greatest need of Harvard just at present.
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