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Rl |>oKT TO T1IK V\<\ SI 1)1 NT June 24, 1919 Final Report ojthe ( >//:, rsity War Committee, January-June, 19/9.

The activities of the Committee before these dates were covered in

Dean Kinley's printed reports of January 7, and August 5, 1918, and my own report of January 7, V)Vh As I indicated in the report of January 7, the work of many of our divisional committees practical! v ended with the signing of the armistice in November. With your approval the work of the Committee has been continued for the purpose of dealing with a few services which are described below. L War Loan Committee The Chief task of this Committee was the organization of the University drive for the Victory Loan. Professor C. M. Thompson having resigned the chairmanship of the Committee, he was succeeded by Professor C. A. Kllis of the Department of Civil Engineering. The work was carried on under obvious difficulties since we lacked some of the stimulus which comes from an actual state of war. Nevertheless, the Committee did its work seriously and effectively with the result that a creditable | showing was made. The procedure adopted, as in the case of the Fourth Liberty Loan, was not to take the actual subscriptions in the University, but to ask each person to subscribe at his own bank and report the amount of his subscriptions to the University Committee. The total amount raised in the University was $86,300, of which the faculty and members of the operating staff contributed $82,000 and the students $4,050. The amount is of course much less than that of the Fourth Loan, which reached approximately $314,000. It should be noted, however, that the former amount included $63,950 from the Chicago schools and colleges, which were unable to report on the subscriptions taken by their instructors and students in the Victory Loan. Included in the Fourth Loan, also, were $54,050 taken through the S. A. T. C. and S. M. A. organizations and $46,100 from the women of the University. The military organizations were not available for the Victory Loan and it was not thought best to canvass the undergraduates closely at this time, in view of the very generous help which the women especially had given to the Fourth Loan. The total for the third, fourth, and fifth loans, which have been conducted under the auspices of this Committee was approximately $620,300. II. War Relief Funds—Professor Decker served as chairman of this Committee during the earlv part of the year, but on his going to Washington Professor W. C. Coffey was appointed to succeed him. The only notable organized effort in this field was that undertaken for the Armenian and Syrian Relief Fund. Mr. Lloyd Morey, the treasurer of this fund, reports that a total of $2509.36 was raised in the University community.