IN BEHALF OF SUFFERERS ABROAD

With increased activity all over the country in behalf of the sufferers of Europe, news comes from New Haven that on the day of the Yale game there opportunity will be given to those attending to drop a contribution in the Red Cross boxes. Apropos of this and of a clothing collection at Princeton the Alumni Bulletin comments as follows:

"From various colleges we hear of what the undergraduates, as a body, are doing to relieve the human suffering in Europe which darkens all the world. At Princeton, for example, the students are reported as collecting clothing and rolling bandages in their clubs. At Yale there have been public meetings, with collections for the work of the Red Cross. Early in the year the Yale Alumni Weekly suggested Red Cross contributions in connection with football tickets. Though nothing seems to have come of this, it is now announced that on the day of the Harvard-Yale game, the Weekly will see that volunteer undergraduates are provided with Red Cross boxes, so that all the tens of thousands attending the game way have an opportunity to make a contribution to the work of relief. Whatever one's personal preferences may be for the time and place of most effective giving, here is a time and place for doing something. It is heartily to be hoped that the volume of contributions may be largely swelled by the Harvard visitors.

"Meanwhile what are the Harvard undergraduates, as a body, doing for the relief of men and women now suffering as human beings have not suffered in modern times? So far as we have heard, nothing. Between the halves of a recent football game, a group of undergraduates enacted on the field a burlesque war-scene which must have struck many spectators as an exhibition of cynical taste and blunted feeling. Innocently enough meant, no doubt, it was far from an encouraging sight. It may be said--and we hope truly--that as Harvard, unlike many colleges, is in the midst of a great urban community, where every form of relief is highly organized, the undergraduates are doing their part as individuals in that community. If they 'appear untouched by solemn thought' while all the rest of mankind is stirred to its depths, is it not time for some leader of Harvard sentiment to rouse them to an active participation in the work now most needed in the world? It would have been finer to stand among the first of the college communities so the first of the college communities so aroused; but far better late than not at all."