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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have probably been few funds that can show as great a record of accomplishment as the Russian Student. Fund, which was established in 1921 to educate refugees from the Soviet regime in American universities. Figures recently published show that last year a quarter of the 133 beneficiaries were "A" men in their studies and not one failed, while in a financial way the results were equally favorable, for the repayments of their advances is considerably above that of the usual student loan...
Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...
Among those clerics who do not subscribe to the fund of brimstone heaped upon undergraduates, Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick is conspicuous. For years the advent of Dr. Fosdick has caused a bull movement in the attendance figures of Appleton Chapel. To take Harvard as a university type, no stronger refutation of the current charges against the student apathy toward religion could be found...
...Harvard Student Council Budget Committee reports that between 14 and $15,000 have been pledged to the Council fund, a sum greater than the amount pledged in any previous year. The Student Council Fund is a welfare federation of Harvard University, substituting a single collection for the many drives for money previously made. The Salvation Army and the Red Cross, as well as the several class funds, the Phillips Brooks House, and the Student Council, share in the money collected by the Council. The Budget Committee requests that the unpaid pledges made at the time of registration, and which...
...Francis Boott Prize is made possible through a fund left by Francis Boott, class of 1831. Through it $100, is awarded annually to the writer of the best composition in concerted vocal music, the competition being open to undergraduates or to members of any graduate school...