Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large that a student has few opportunities to come into personal contact with teachers, it is a fact that not a few undergraduates make friends among their instructors and go to them for advice on many things besides studies. . . . Professors, after all, are human beings, whose capacities for friendship are not entirely destroyed by the exacting nature of their manifold duties, and the student who goes through college without knowing some of them outside the classroom is, I am sure, exceptional...
...Monday April 6, there appeared in the CRIMSON an editorial in no uncertain terms upon the unsatisfactory conduct of the Student Friendship drive. I should like to make clear a few points which the self-satisfied and apparently brilliant editorial writer seems to have overlooked In other years the drive has been conducted in January when the students had much more ready money than they have at this time of year. The Seniors are raising money for their endowment fund, the Freshmen have been called upon for class fund contributions, and the term bills are due in a very short...
...Student Friendship drive came to its final close last night with $2,000 still as the approximate figure for the amount collected. The campaign is definitely over except for the tabulation of the last reports of 24 collectors which have as yet made no report to the directing committee...
Coming to the official closing hour of its campaign at a late hour last night, the Student Friendship Fund crossed the $2,000 mark, still almost $2,000 below its desired goal. The Committee directing the drive have been best with numerous difficulties which culminated last night in the fact that 41, out of the 104 collectors which were appointed, had failed to make their reports. As a result of this the committee has announced that it will continue the drive until tonight...
Under such management this drive has met with more success than it nominally deserves. Harvard has contributed a thousand dollars on faith and the memory of last year's efficient drive. This is not an attempt to belittle the cause of Student Friendship, for it is a very fine one indeed. Any attempt to help needy students, no matter where they are, should be met with approbation, not criticism. Once its cause is carefully explained and well understood, one may feel confident that Harvard will not be slow to subscribe its full quota...