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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive to solicit funds for the Cambridge chapter of the American Red Cross appears to have been decidedly successful during the past two days, although the exact amount collected cannot be determined until this evening. There will be a meeting of all canvassers at 7.15 o'clock today in the Breakfast Room of Randolph Hall, at which time all money will be turned over to the committee consisting of H. D. Nash '23, chairman; 1922, John Crocker; 1923, Vinton Chapin; 1924, D. S. Holder; 1925, J. H. Child. This committee wishes to emphasize the importance of the fact that every...
...think that the service for disabled ex-soldiers of the Home Service Section of the Cambridge Chapter of the American Red Cross should be continued until such time as the Government proves itself ready and competent to render it. It is doubtful whether the Government ever can serve the disabled or incompetent soldiers well except in one direction, the maintenance of good hospitals and asylums under the management of the National Health Service. Ever since our soldiers began to return from France the Red Cross has been doing for them many things that the Government is not prepared...
...seriousness of the situation which gives rise to the drive is evidenced by the fact that 2857 disabled soldiers come under the scope of the Cambridge branch of the Red Cross. Of these the men to whom the chapter renders actual assistance, may be divided into several classes. In emergency cases, the Red Cross does actual hospital work, but with the vast majority of men the organization leaves this side of the work to the state and city hospitals, while it attends to another branch of service almost equal in importance to the actual caring for the sick and wounded...
...Such functions as these are the responsibility of the man's own community, working through the local chapter or branch. These local organizations assume the responsibility which has been placed upon them by the Government, to give men in the military and contract hospitals certain forms of service which are not supplied by the Government." Mr. Rotch went on to enumerate the many other services which the Red Cross took into its hands. In finishing he said that "aside from its other duties, the Red Cross is recognized as the agency equipped and ready to meet any great disasters that...
...drive to secure funds for the Cambridge chapter of the American Red Cross will open this morning when canvassers from each class start work in an endeavor to secure a contribution from every undergraduate of the University. The money collected will be used wholly to benefit disabled veterans of the World War, and none of it will go toward running expenses or upkeep of the chapter itself. The University committee in charge consists of Bradley De Lamater Nash '23, of Brookline, chairman; 1922, John Crocker of Fitchburg; 1923, Vinton Chapin of Boston; 1924, Daniel Stewart Holder of New Orleans...