BROOKS HOUSE CLOTHING COLLECTION.

Of all the efficient charity work done by the Phillips Brooks House Association, none is more real and tangible than that resulting from the semi-annual clothing and text-book collections. Educational and entertainment work deserve all the support than can be given them, but they are not effective unless the conditions, for the relief of which the clothing collection is undertaken, are bettered. In other words, education cannot accomplish its ends in the presence of actual physical, want.

The text-book loan library, which the present collection aims to increase, has time and again been shown to be of real assistance to those students who cannot afford to buy all the books required in their courses. In contributing either clothing or books, men can feel that they are doing the greatest possible good for the exertion and sacrifice required. Those who recognize unimproved opportunities for public service can find no easier way to acquit themselves than by generous gifts to the Brooks House clothing and text-books collection.