Syrians to Profit by Old Neckties, Two Bibles and an Inner Tube in Addition to Old Clothing of Student Philanthropists

With the publication of the results of the Phillips Brooks House Association Spring Drive for clothing many facts which will be of distinct service to University psychologists were brought to light. Among other things a badly used inner tube was believed by one benevolent undergraduate to be of value to the destitute of Asia Minor..

The drive was carried on for the benefit of the Near East Relief to clothe the destitute people of Asia Minor who, according to the announcement at the beginning of the drive "have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer." In view of this it is striking to note that the largest item on the list, which indeed contains a goodly number of assorted clothes including 200 elderly neckties, was about three tons of magazines. The collection committee, feeling that these would not prove of particular advantage to the destitute Syrians have given them to the American Merchant Marine.

Two other items on the list which create sensations of considerable wonder are 41 odd shoes and one inner tube.

It was taken for granted when the clothing drive was instituted, that the articles given to it would be those for which the giver no longer had any use. In the donation to the cause of the Near East Relief of two Bibles in excellent condition and scarcely to be differentiated from new ones it would seem that the growing accusation of irreligion in the University has been substantiated. Or were they given on purely altruistic principles?