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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Some weeks ago you published a letter suggesting the establishment of a Loan Collection of Text Books. The following progress has been made towards such a collection:

The Social Service Committee has offered to make the collection, collate the books, store them in its rooms in Brooks House, and attend to their distribution in the fall. It is proposed to make the first collection at the time of the spring clothing collection, which is being made this week, and the second, at the close of the College year.

We hope that every man in College will be good enough to look over his shelves and to let us have every book he can possibly spare. The success of the plan depends obviously on the number of volumes collected, and we wish that this might be large enough to enable us to announce in the College pamphlets that a considerable number of books will be available next year. For the Social Service Committee.   P. E. HUTCHISON '98.