Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift to the Food Relief Committee," Bruno Walter, musical adviser to the New York Philharmonic Society, will lecture informally on Mozart's "Magic Flute" in Kirkland House Junior Common Room March 26 at 5 o'clock...
With traditional contempt for the churlish mouthings of eynies, Harvard undergraduates have energetically launched the Food Relief Committee on its current drive to aid European students. Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However...
...solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that baflies every charity with a mailing list. Where experts consider a ten percent return on letters average, the Food Relief quota for commuters has necessarily been placed at close to seventy percent. Minor difficulties such as distaste for the gummy side of stamps, lack of ink, and the ever-present aversion to mailing a letter should not, deter any student or faculty member from giving to this vitally important program...
With 1800 out of 4000 House residents approached for contributions to European student relief, donations have been averaging $4.64, reports of the first two days of soliciting showed last night...
...gratified that the Harvard Food Relief Committee has chosen to transmit Harvard's contribution through World Student Service Fund. We command you for the generous goal of $25,000 that you have established. The needs of 400,000 university students in war-devastated areas amply justify your efforts...