A plea to the student body was issued last night by Douglas Mercer '40, Treasurer of the Student Council, in which he requested all undergraduates to pay pledges to the Council.

Mercer revealed that the Council is still owed $2,500 by 900 students who pledged money last fall. The Council has collected to date only $6,615.93.

At the same time the Council's budget was announced. Since September 1939, the Council has given almost $4,000 to charity and to its scholarship fund, Mercer revealed. The Phillips Brooks House Association received a grant of $2,500 for its social service and religious work.

Other charities have received $350. Of this amount $300 went to the Boston Community Fund drive, and the other $50 was donated to the Salvation Army. Other expenses include those of the 1943 Smoker and Jubilee affairs.

The Scholarship Committee of the Council has given $800 so far this year to thirty-seven individuals. The Committee reports that an average recipient works twenty-two hours a week. He earns about $342 a year and has an average debt of $286. Most of these students were in Group Three or Four.

Letters will be sent out on Monday to all those who have not yet paid their pledges in the drive to collect the $2,500.