New Britain herald., 1917-04-30
KEEP YALE ALIVE, 1 IS ALUMNI SLOGAN
Graduates to Devise Way to Offset
 Financial Loss
Especial to the Herald.)

New York. April 3O.-To pledge
 their services to the country and tC
 continue their university as the great
 est military training school in the
 land, thousands of Yale graduates are
 now preparing to hold a huge war
 council in New Haven at the coming
 commencement. according to advices
 received at the headquarters of the ! Yale Alumni University Fund asso
 ciation in this city today. Around a ' campus that Is being turned into a
 camp of field artillery, naval and coast
 defense, engineer corps, aerial patrol
 and observation, medical and other units, the alumni of classes from three
 years to half a century back will
 mobilize to shout their slogan-"For
 God. for Country and for Yale.'' As
 the result of this patriotic pilgrimage,
 not only will all the men and work of
 Tale be devoted to defense training on
 . large scale, but support to tide the :, university over tho critical period of its sacrifice of students and service to
 the government will be offered, it is
 prOphesied by the men who are sounding tho sentiment of the return ing graduates.
 Instead of campus celebrations that in time of peace are prepared for the members of the many classes at com- mencement reunions, the alumni who are ready to rally at Yale this year
 will find their college either empty of students or an organized war post with every available undergraduate in uniform. Already many units of the Reserve Officers Training Corps are beginning daily drills in artillery tao tics a surprise before the doors of the dormitories. while the harbor swarms with students enrolled i'll the Yale Naval Training Unit and the Coast Defense Reserve. In addition. a num- Der of A erial Coast Patrol units, made up of the New Haven undergraduates, are flying in various parts of the country, and an engineer corps and mobile field hospital units are in nrocess of formation.
 ASA Great Financial. Loss.
 With many of these soldier students sure to be called away from their college courses as soon as they are trained for service, the university is today facing a financial sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of dollars an- nually in the. consequent curtailment of tuition and room rent fees. Fol- lowing a conference to be called next month by the college treasury and alumni fund officials, statement of l this serious situation that ffusast be l faced by Yale as a patriotic duty will 1 be drawn Up for presentation to the l graduates at their commencement | council. Every man who has been | educated at New Haven will be given 1 the opportunity to add to his pledge | to support his country a. gllarantee of Bis willingness to keep Yale alive 1 her alumni fund, to which l every graduate may contribute any s. Next to God and country, Yale is l being remembered by her graduates l even in these trying times. as our l from alumni all over l fhe country show" said Henry s. l Brooks, chairman of the Yale Alumni | Fund association at it's Headquarters, 50 Vanderbilt avenue. in this city. today. At this most l reunion in Yale history. 1 We ~are being assured, an army of l Yale men will meet, first of all to help 1 their country. and then to help Yale 1 in its present emergency"