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...Saturday mornings the last period is reserved for the branch meetings of the "Y", when the Greek, Armenian, and Bulgarian Associations meet and hear addresses in the vernacular. It is easier to secure students to speak in these meetings where they speak their own language and are among their fellow-countrymen. Once a month the branch meetings are omitted and a Federation meeting is held, at which time a prominent speaker is secured and reports are read and business of interest to the entire membership is discussed...
...best things the college "Y" has done during the school year has been arranging for a Christmas party for orphans children. After a careful survey the committee selected the Armenian orphanage for boys, a Greek home for begger children, and two Rusian homes, to be their guests. One hundred and fifty-five children under the age of twelve arrived at the college on the afternoon of January 5, the Greek Orthodox Christmas day. The college fellows were splendid hosts to the youngsters. Games were played; then the "kiddies" enjoyed three reels of a "movie" comedy. Then each orphanage performed...
...with no opportunity for schooling and insucient food to keep them healthy. Part of the money will be given to the International Committee in Constantinople which is feeding, as extensively as limited funds permit, the Russian refugees stranded in this city. The rest of the money will send Greek, Armenian, and Jewish children to school. These children are in a more lamentable condition than orphans who at least get food and some schooling. As far as possible, groups of Robert Colleges students will be made responsible for the children who have been sent to native schools through the generosity...
...most heart-compelling appeals of all time, makes a refusal impossible. To most of us the idea of starvation, lack of clothing, and lack of shelter are so far from actual experience that we can scarcely appreciate what they mean. Yet it is a grim fact that scores of Armenian children are dying daily from lack of shelter and nourishment; while one hundred and ten thousand others during the past year have been saved only by the efforts of the Near East Relief. If these thousands are to be given another year of life, if the hundreds of others...
...view of the fact that a number of the men whose lives are recorded in the Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France, which through a typographical error was titled "Armenian" instead of "American" in Friday's issue of the Bookshelf, are University graduates, the book will be sent prepaid to any past or present member of the University upon receipt of application, enclosing $3.00, at the American Field Service, 50 State street, Boston, Mass...