Solicitations Net $3,862 From Houses and Law School in Initial Days of Food Drive

Partial returns from the Harvard Food Relief Committee's fund-raising drive show that $3,862,20 have been received already from the College Houses, the Law School, and the Widener Library desk, where collections are still incomplete.

According to Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, Chairman of the Committee, the drive appears "very encouraging" in its initial stages, judging from the few figures already available.

Breaking down the figure above, $2,149,70 had been collected in the Houses as of last night, by the door to door solicitations, which are being carried on by more than 70 men under the direction of Committee representative William Sharpe, Jr. '43, with the drive not scheduled to end until tonight.

Law School students were contacted through Richard Killifer 3L by means of pledge cards distributed on Thursday, and the first 248 cards returned to the Committee out of a total of 1,500, pledge $1282.50. Campbell said that he was disappointed with the returns from the Law School and hoped to extend the period of the drive there.

In Widener Library a representative, stationed near the main entrance for the convenience of those Faculty members and students not living in College buildings who prefer to make a cash contribution in place of a check, collected $214.00 on Thursday. The Committee announced that a representative will be in Widener again today from 9 to 5 o'clock.

Business School Contributes

In the Business School, Committee representative Joseph Beck 1GB, said yesterday, "Our main collection started today, and it is going very well." He added that the drive is averaging better than two dollars per person.

Faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students not residing in College buildings, who were contacted by mail, did not receive their letters until yesterday at the earliest, and results of the mailing-list solicitations will not be known for some time.

No report has been received as yet from the Graduate School, represented by Richard Angell 2G.

According to Sharpe, feelings differed toward the drive for funds. "I am proud," he said, "to be a member of the same institution as those veterans in Grays and Matthews, who are barely getting along on $65 a month, but 90 percent of whom managed to give $1 or $2 to the drive. In contrast to these, there were men in Wigglesworth who argued for a whole afternoon in refusing to give as much as 50 cents.