As in 1917-18, the items listed under "Military and Naval Aid" were numerous and large. The Y. M. C. A. Hut at the Naval Radio School, which had been doubled in size and operations since the last treasurer's report, cost $213.91 to be maintained from June 1, the beginning of the new fiscal year, to August 1, when it was taken over by the National Y. M. C. A. During the summer $255.61 was expended on stationery and entertainment for the R. O. T. C. in the Cambridge barracks and at Camp Thayer.

At the beginning of the College year in September our credit in the bank was $4,203.50: Heavy expenditures in connection with the S. A. T. C. and the Ensign School were foreseen throughout the coming year. In view of the fact it was decided to launch a financial campaign before the small nucleus of Harvard men in the S. A. T. C. left College for training camps. A brief drive among the disorganized conditions of the University during the formation of the S. A. T. C. netted $1,698.76.

Expense in connection with the S. A. T. C. and the Ensign School were as follows: the operation of a canteen in the Speakers' Club at 9 Holyoke street cost $517.19. Entertainments on five evenings consisting of 47 Workshop plays given in the Hasty Pudding Club at 2 Holyoke street amounted to $334.31. Notepaper and envelopes for the corps came to $225.83. In all, the military and naval items amounted to $1,547.35.

In addition to the heavy military expenditure there were the usual items of postage, printing, office expenses, telephone, salaries, entertainment, and house committee, etc.

The annual financial drive was made from February 11 to 17 by three competing teams composed of Sophomores under Junior captains. To this the returned members of the College and Graduate Schools responded generously with $3,036.58, which sum although $1,026.27 less than the collection of 1917-18, was very encouraging from a little more than half-filed University. It must be remembered, too, that the $1,698.76 taken in last fall was in large part given by the Harvard men in the S. A. T. C. Thus the total collection from the University for the year was $4,735.34, exceeding the 1917 figures by $672.49.  D. C. HAWKINS '20.

Librarian's Report.

There are several divisions of the Phillips Brooks House Library which must be included in this report. They are: The Text Book Loan Library, the Randall Library, and the St. Paul's Society and Christian Association reading rooms.

Although the College was in the hands of the government, there was the usual rush at the beginning of the year and the library was accordingly open every day for about the first ten days after courses began regularly. During the rest of the year it has been opened three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The courses did not regularly begin until the tenth of October and the decrease of regular students at the College was tremendous, yet the total number of books issued was scarcely 100 less than the year before, a total of 497 being issued. Of this number 96 were law books, issued to men of the Law School. This is an entirely new feature in recent years and was made especially effective this year by the generous gift of several volumes by Secretary Ames of the Law School.

The total number of volumes in the Loan Library is nearly 3,000. This sounds like a large number, but many, probably over half of these are out of date and the need for new books is as great as ever. The need for new books is really greater than ever, as the clothing collection last fall netted scarcely any books at all. A great deal more is expected from the collection this spring.

The Randall Library, which contains books on Missions, Social Service and Religion, has had the addition of 26 useful volumes, 12 on Social Service, 4 on Mission and 10 on Religion.

It might be appropriate to add that these books may be drawn by any student of the University, for two weeks and renewed on the expiration of that time. These books are of great value and interest, particularly to those men who are in charge of boys clubs and it would be well to publish this fact more broadly.

The Reading Room of the Christian Association has been used and thoroughly enjoyed by the men of the Radio School until February 1, not only as a reading room for all the current literature to which the organizations of Phillips Brooks House subscribe, but also as a writing room. Now that its usefulness in this respect is over, we sincerely hope that the Reading Room will continue to be used by men in the University.

J. MURRAY STEELE, JR., '21, Librarian.

Christian Association.

The activities of the Harvard University Christian Association during this most unusual of College years, in which we have changed from a war to a post-war basis, might be plotted mathematically by a curve which begins below the line, but gradually reaches a considerable height above it; and the same I believe, is true of most other College activities.