Show OLD CLOTHES cast off garments of students distributed tri buted through charitable system every spring there occurs at harvard college a curious convention of the old clothes as it might be called at which the castoff garments of hundreds of college undergraduates meet and mingle for the last time before starting out on an odd and practical philanthropy the affair is conducted by an under graduate organization known as the student volunteer association every thing in the way t clothing la in eluded underwear suits even an occasional dress coat stockings with all the variegated splendor that clings to undergraduate ankles plain and fancy waistcoats and hats literally too numerous to mention during the week of the collection says modern women the old harvard yard is full of moving bundles all tending toward brooks house where the various religious societies of the college have their headquarters here the bundles are opened the va rious articles sorted arranged and finally distributed to local and dis tant charitable centers boots and shoes for example are what might be called the tuskegee specialty at harvard several boxes of them go annually to booker washington s institute where the shoe shops are immediately useful in mending them up and starting them on a new career of utility the sal in boston gets practically all the derby hats |