Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of life as something of intrinsic value? The answer to this question entails a complete philosophy of life which each man must construct for himself. My own feeling in the matter is that one gets an experience of infinite worth in certain relations with fellow-men. A real friendship may be the means of giving a lasting sense of values to the men bound by this tie. Hard work of the Carlyle or Emerson type is a possible answer to this riddle...
...organization, to the inefficient manner of conducting drives before the adoption of a Student Council Budget. The question is pertinent, however, whether, whether this lack of support does not spring in some measure from a lack of confidence both in the aims and in the achievements of the Student Friendship fund. The collection of the Budget this year has contributed notably to the ultimate success of the new plan, but in its expenditure there is an equally legitimate test of its merit, and contribution from the Budget to the Student Friendship fund should not be made without thorough investigation...
...situation in Europe immediately after the war was one that demanded some immediate and generous assistance from American students. The work done by the Student Friendship in meeting this situation is not to be disparaged; in restoring some measure of comfort and opportunity to students in war-impoverished sections of Europe, the Fund accomplished a much-needed service. That situation has now subsided, and it remains to be learned what other needs have arisen to warrant the perpetuation of the Student Friendship Fund...
...case in point, where little money is sent in the first place, and where, on the other hand, there is said to the discrimination in favor of certain economic and religious creeds that are not universally accepted, and whose support entails more moralizing and disagreeable proselytizing than it entails friendship and understanding...
...great part of the difficulty in estimating the worth of the Student Friendship Fund lies in the absence of publicity about its aims and about its methods. Even those few students who have supported the movement in Harvard University in the past have very often had little idea of where their contributions were to go. the literature that has been given undergraduates on the subject has been woefully inadequate, so much so that misunderstanding of the Christian Federation is probably as prevalent as is ignorance of its existence...