Service Fund Plans Drive

One week from today the Harvard Service Fund will open its door-to-door canvass of the College in order to collect the money pledged by undergraduates at registration last month. Although the drive is under the supervision of the Student Council, the Fund Committee has been chosen at large from the student body. An individual contribution of $7 has been asked, and collectors will request that all students who are able meet this donation even if they pledged less before.

The Harvard Service Fund, revamped this fall, will endeavor to cover every major charity to which the student body has been asked to contribute in the past. Instead of several separate campaigns for various charities, undergraduates will be asked to meet only this one pledge. "We feel sure that this plan will avoid all necessity of further canvassing of the student body," Thomas Matters '43, president of the Council, said last night.

Six Large Charities

The major part of the funds collected will be divided among six charities, which will then not be obliged to contact students separately. New charities and increased wartime budgets have also contributed to the need for a larger fund this year. During the course of the drive, thermomographs will be put up in each House, in order to record its progress.

At the head of the list of charities benefiting through the drive is Phillips Brooks House, through whose hands passes yearly most of the educational and philanthropic work of the student body in the community. The money from the Council will be used only for the running expenses of PBH.

Last year approximately $2700 was distributed to students through Student Council Scholarships. The awards were on the whole small, and based not so much on scholastic standing as on sudden crises in a student's finances which might threaten his college career.

Other large charities included under the drive are the Red Cross and the Boston Community Fund, both of which in the past have had to canvass students separately. A charity little known to most undergraduates and which will receive a small allotment from the Fund is the World Student Service Fund.