A 1917 trade-journal report on the sixteenth annual banquet of the Alumni Association of the Philadelphia Textile School, held May 25 at the Manufacturers' Club with over 175 attendees. It summarizes speeches by association president Bradley C. Algeo, A. C. Bigelow on the "More Wool" campaign and the wool shortage, Dr. Cheesman A. Herrick on Switzerland and national defense, Herman A. Metz, E. W. Fairchild, and John Fisler. Topics include the school's response to World War I, enrollment, a planned new school building, and domestic wool production.