Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the organization today of a model League of Nations for the Bay region, student cooperation in the promotion of international understanding is once more called to aid the efforts of statesmen and diplomats. The idea is not new, since within the last year or two, similar assemblies have been held at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and Amherst. But in the development of this latest organization, there is much that may remedy the difficulties that have impeded former attempts...
...aid of the Boston League of Nations Association, which has offered to support a permanent secretariat, is an asset that will insure a certain amount of stability in the organization. This secretariat with undoubtedly perform the tiresome routine necessary to the mobilization of the various independent college organizations, and will pave the way to well planned, smoothly executed assemblies...
...Forris Jewett Moore, of Cambridge, has given to the University in memory of her husband an endowment for a fellowship, carrying a stipend of $500. This aid, which will be known as the Forris Jewett Moore Fellowship in Organic Chemistry, will be awarded to assist some graduate of the University who has distinguished himself in that subject while an undergraduate and wishes to engage in further work in the field. The beneficiary is to be a member of the graduating class of the year preceding that in which he holds the fellowship. At the discretion of the University, the award...
Support of another and more tangible sort is likely to be necessary. In order to make the rarer books in the collection generally available, it will be necessary to have a librarian in attendance at all times. The aid of such a person in helping patrons of the collection to find what they want and to care for the books would increase the desirability of his constant presence. As yet the funds for such a functionary have not been provided, but it is seldom that a good cause must cry unheard forever. It is to be hoped that the many...
...establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...