As the University buckles down to the final day of its United War Fund drive, Elliot Perkins, Harvard chapter chairman, announced last night that there had been a definite improvement in the rate of returns.

Specific figures were unobtainable because of the constant influx of contribu-in the Wadsworth House headquarters, but Perkins estimated that $31,000 had been received by last night. This is still $9,000 short of the University quota of $40,000, with the greatest deficit among the student body.

Canvassing will be completed today in an attempt to equal and exceed the quota. The employees have already donated more than they did to the Community Fund last year and if not for the absences to Washington, the Faculty would have broken past records also.