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President of the "Wilhelmina" committee is Hendrik Willem van Loon '04, while Johannes A. C. F. Auer, Professor of Church History and Parkman Professor of Theology, is head of the New England chapter...
...help itself now. Thousands of Hollanders saw their possessions destroyed overnight. A procession of war stricken refugees, including hundreds of students like you and me, began to tread the road of desperate flight. To help these people, a committee has been organized under the presidency of Hendrik Willom van Loon. This "Queen Wilhelmina Fund" has a New England chapter under the presidency of Professor Auer of Harvard University. Contributions to this fund, will be used for the relief of Dutch refugees. Every Harvard student who wants to help my country in this, its darkest hour in history, is requested...
...Temple University's student chiefs telegraphed a plea to calm "war hysteria"; Harvard Professor Roger Merriman criticized a student anti-war petition as failing "to see the moral issue"; Stanford students wired Mr. Roosevelt protests at his Pan-American policies; in Manhattan Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigned from the Dutch Treat Club because Author Clarence Budington Kelland remarked: "The fifth column in this country is headed by that fellow in the White House...
...much less known to the public than are the changes his work has wrought in the many common things people use, from toothbrush handles, telephones and false gums to gear wheels, automobile parts and airplane bodies. Even more than most scientists, the man is publicity-shy. He is Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite, "Father of Plastics...
Edward B. Sheldon '08, honorary chairman, and Hendrik Willem Van Loon '06, chairman, will lead a discussion on "Arts and the Letters." Arthur A. Ballantine '06 is chairman of the group which will deal with "Bench, Bar, and Government," and William A. Neilson G '96, President-emeritus of Smith College, does similarly on "Education...