Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee has appealed to all students and employees of the dining halls to cooperate in eliminating food waste. No one who has observed the preparation of meals and the enormous amount of leftovers will belittle the saving to be effected in this way. But even further, the Harvard Food Relief Committee hopes to work out proposals with. University officials whereby actual contributions of food or money will be turned over to the committee's funds if the student body should endorse a program of voluntary rationing. Response so far indicates that undergraduates will not be slow to show approval...
...Harvard Food Relief Fund will be spent in two-ways. In line with the President's request that food be bought on the open market, the Committee will use as much as possible to purchase and ship food overseas directly. One suggestion that should find sympathy among students in this American university is to send supplies to the universities of Europe. The remainder of the fund will be allocated to other organizations already engaged in shipping food to Europe...
...conventioneers were Senior Girl Scouts. They listened earnestly to talks which covered world peace, juvenile delinquency, table manners and sex. They decided that the country's 1,000,000 Girl Scouts could raise $250,000 for foreign relief next year by giving up "a couple of candy bars." Barbara, one of the youngest and therefore least noticed, screwed up her courage enough to say at a race-prejudice discussion: "We shouldn't be mean to people; we should treat them just as we want to be treated...
...nervous tension. Confused reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
...mound corps, greatly weakened by the graduation last fall of Jack Wallace, is currently headed by Johnny Knowles. The lean southpaw will be starting his third campaign for the Crimson, having spent the past two years carrying the Jayvees and turning in valuable relief jobs for the varsity on occasion. Other prospects for the pitching staff include Norm Wholley and Dick Morris, with several other candidates also in the running...