Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard relief fund for the Chelsea sufferers has been started by the CRIMSON, and contributions are to be left with the Cambridge Trust Company or in a box in the Union placed there for that purpose. This fund, when it aggregates an appreciable amount, will be sent to Lee, Higginson & Co., to be added to the general fund...
...yesterday relief funds poured into the burned city. A fund started by Lee, Higginson & Co. aggregated over $10,000, $15,000 was donated by the state, $26,000 was appropriated by the neighboring city of Lynn, and large sums were sent from Somerville, Malden and other cities. An appeal has been made to all the cities and towns in Massachusetts, it is expected that at least $1,000,000 will be needed to relieve the distress adequately...
...CRIMSON'S request the Cambridge Trust Company has kindly agreed to receive contributions toward a fund to be known as the Harvard University Chelsea Relief Fund, and to forward the money subscribed to Lee, Higginson & Co., treasurers of the general fund. The fearful destitution of the thousands of homeless people demands an instant response, and Harvard should not be behind in the philanthropic patriotism of Greater Boston. Officers and students of the University are urged to contribute in any amounts, large or small, according to their means. Call at the Cambridge Trust Company today, or leave the subscriptions...
...athletic coach is in the welfare of his charges, or the officers of a social club in its promotion. Results do not seem to justify this belief. We listen to dreary, ill-prepared talks--not lectures--and at the end of an hour fly with a sigh of relief to the athletic field or to the clubs. It is conceivable, that, if all our instructors delivered their lectures with the earnestness and eloquence of our borrowed professors, and took the personal interest in those under them that an athletic coach does, the academic interests would not be so far behind...
...shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...