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T. R. MEMORIAL EXCEEDS $1200

William Roscoe Thayer '81 Delivers Eloquent Plea for More Funds.

Twelve hundred and twenty-six dollars is the grand total collected so far in the University drive for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund. Team A, headed by Hugh Ward '20, is still well in the lead, with $527.50 to its credit, while Team C, under R. E. Larsen '21, is in second place with $359,50. Team B, under F. U. Perry '21, has collected $339.

At a mass meeting at the Union last night, William Roscoe Thayer '81, Roosevelt's college friend and foremost biographer, traced the main events of the Colonel's career, and closed with an cloquent plca that all Harvard men subscribe to the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, no matter how small their contributions. J. G. King, Jr., '20, Chairman of the Harvard Committee for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, followed with an appeal for further support of the drive, and pledges were distributed throughout the audience. After a moving picture of various haunts and friends of Roosevelt in the West, it was found that $50 in cash had been collected.

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