New Britain herald., 1918-06-24
YALE MEN SUPPORT
 WAR WORK TO LIMIT
Alumni Add S502,737 to Funds
 Already Contributed

New York, June 24.--Adding s5o2,-
 731 in contributions for future Yale
 war work to the 2.1S0 Army and Navy
 othcers that their university has al-
 ready given to Uncle Sam with it's
 ehtlfe laboratory plants. 26. .00O Yale
 graduates i'll every section of the
 | Onited States today reported to the
 hcadquarters of the Yale Alumni ITnj-
 NersltN Fund association in this city
 that they were prepared to go on
 oacklng their cOnntry and their col
 leRe to the last man and to the las;
 dollar. Liberty Bonds. War Savings
 Stamps, Thrift Stamps cash. checks
 and foreign drafts are h4apeG up in
 this huge fund that is to tide Yale through her first period of sacrificing
 everything else to her military and
 naval training activities and extensive gas and m edical researches in co-op-
 cration with the Washington war
 authorities. These contributions have como from Yale men in the front line trenches in France, in Belgium, on ! the hattleshipS, SuhOa rines and aero drones of the Allies abroad. in every ! cantonment in this country. and in l Great Britain, India China Japan, l Spain, Cuba, Porto Rico. Hawaii aud | the Philippines, well as from every community throughout the United States. They range from 25c to S25 nOO
 With over quarter of the living Yale graduates enlisted in Army and Navy and many more absorbed in gov ernment war work, it was generally realized only a few months ago that Vale was facing a deficit of over a quarter of a million dollars as a penal tN for the first year of her patriotic plunge to the aid of the country. In answer to the question Shall Yale be left financially crippled in her war work and for years to come after the
 war?' sent to all graduates overseas and at home. the slogan. There shall l be no deficit!' came back to the heads l of the Yale Alumni University Fund association here. Now that the 5000 l Yale men know that they can serve 1 their country through backing tho 1 great war work of their university, 1 leaders of this Alumni Fund move 1 ment declare that the financial future 1 of Yale is assured up to the last dol l lar of her many sons.
 Typical of the support sent from graduates fighting overseas major 1 on General Pershing's staff has just l sent his bit as a Yale man, calling ] it ' side shot at the Roche and all 1 he stands fOr--aS we are being pretty 1 heavily shelled just at this minute I 1 shell out very easily for the purpose 1 na m ed Beside the hundreds of 1 contributors in foreign service, many 1 mothers and fathers of Yale boys far 1 off at the front have sent checks with some such message as My son 1 is in France fighting for his country. 1 He loves Yale next to his country and l us and it would be his wish to help if 1 he were here" Wives, brothers, sis ters. sweethearts and friends of Yale's ! sons in service have also contributed | in their names.
 TO ba ok up the boye abroad with
 every facility of the governments ] great research work in the Yale 1 laboratories. as well as to give every
 Yale undergraduate the chance to fit 1 himself for service in the extensive
 artillery and naval training schools ! that Yale has largely been made into, ! Is the object to which the gifts of 1 the graduate body are being devoted. l From now on. 1t Is reported from
 alumni bodies all over the country i that. though over 5000 graduates are gone away in Uncle Sam's uniform l and half of some classes are now | fighting in France, the sons of Yale 1 will see to it that their university 1 never su1f CTS for her sacrifices in , backing up our war.
 The whole Yale body is HOW
 awakened eager to help and to serve | both country and college" said Henry l Stanford Brooks, chairman of the l Yale Alumni University fund asso- 1 ciation, at its headquarters, 1a5 1 Broadway, in ths city today. "Ialc 1 nas dedicated her mon and resources l to the government without q thought l for the future the consequence 1 " hich must inevitably follow. 25,0o0 1 graduates have watched this with en- 1 thMsiasm and pride and now they arc 1 ready to back Yale'S work and safe l guard her future to their last dollar l This fund of theirs was given cheer fully and lavishly, as a byproduct l Of the devotion and loyalty of Yale mon for their Alma Mater and their ! country.'