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Fund, which goes to the needy fam- 

 ilies of soldiers. The estimated cost 

 of such work the coming vear is 

 $8,000,000. Toronto's share 'in that 

 will be $2,000,000, and the plan is to 

 raise this in a three-days' campaign. 

 Several million dollars have been 

 given to the British Red Cross. To- 

 ronto raised a half million dollars 

 for that purpose in one day. The 

 staff and students of the university 

 shared in this to the extent of over 

 $4,000. The Canadian Red Cross 

 has collected over a million dollars 

 in connection with its work. Many 

 towns, cities and business organiza- 

 tions have donated motor ambulan- 

 ces, hospital supplies and even ma- 

 chine guns. The university raised 

 $40,000 to establish a base hospital 

 (now reported to be at Saloniki) 

 and $60,000 for running expenses. 

 The university women have under- 

 taken to furnish the necessary sup- 

 plies for the hospital. The teaching 

 staff of the university established a 

 chair for a professor from the Uni- 

 versity of Louvain, and he is now 

 giving courses here. 



The Clash of Arms. 



As I write this, a company of 

 soldiers is marching past with a 

 band playing a pulse-quickening air. 

 About 12.000 soldiers are now being 

 quartered in Toronto, and men are 

 enlisting in the city at the rate of 

 about 200 per day. Up to Christ- 

 mas, Canada had raised 207,000 sol- 

 diers and on New Year's day the 

 call came from Ottawa for enough to 

 bring the total number up to 500,000. 

 The population of Canada is, or was 

 before the war, close to 8.000,000. 

 So when the enlistment reaches 

 half-million, the proportion will be 

 one to every sixteen of the entire 

 population. If we estimate that one 

 in eight of the total population is 

 male of military age, then, when the 

 latest call for men is supplied, one- 

 half of the military strength of the 

 country will have been recruited, or 

 in other words, Canada in the pinch 

 can raise one million men. How- 



ever, those of military age but unfit 

 should be deducted in this estimate. 

 The men rejected are now running 

 at about 25 per cent, of those offer- 

 ing their services. 



The British war office has esti- 

 mated that the wastage of men from 

 all sources is 15 per cent, a month, 

 or in other words, the armies at the 

 front must be completely renewed 

 by the end of each seven months 

 period. From this statement, if he 

 knows what numbers are now en- 

 gaged and what numbers of recruits 

 are available, one can figure out 

 how much longer the war can last 

 on the basis of the present activities. 



Foresters to the Front. 



The university has responded 

 generously to the needs of the war. 

 Six hundred undergraduates and 83 

 members of the teaching staff have 

 already enlisted. Over 900 recent 

 graduates have also offered them- 

 selves. This makes the university's, 

 contribution over 1,600 men. The 

 Department of Forestry has prob- 

 ably contributed a larger percentage 

 than any other department in the 

 university, as there has been a de- 

 crease of 70 per cent, in the number 

 of students since the beginning of 

 the war, the registration at that time 

 being fifty and now only fifteen. 

 And moreover, only one-half of 

 those who enrolled last October are 

 now present. We have a few stu- 

 dents not of the military standard 

 and they are all we expect to have 

 left at the end of the school year, for 

 practically every able-bodied man 

 will enlist, unless the atmosphere 

 clears in the meantime. That is the 

 spirit throughout the university. 

 Nearly every man is drilling. The 

 campus is covered with men in khaki 

 from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. 

 During these cold days the corri- 

 dors of the university buildings, 

 once sacred to mental and spiritual 

 strivings, now resound to the clash 

 of arms. The students are organi- 

 zed into an ofiicers' training corps. 

 The successful get a lieutenant's 



