Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...European nations. Aside from the obviously high motives of our correspondents, it is difficult to see the practical value of their suggestion since its application would only keep a little extra spending money in the pockets of each Freshman, without adding in any way to the resources of the relief committees abroad...
...destroy such an institution, even in these days of extreme international stress, is inadvisable unless the benefits to be gained are clear and unmistakable. In the present case we can see none. Let the reformers of 1920 organize a class fund for Serbian or Belgian relief, for they could do nothing finer, but the sacrifice of such a major class institution as the Red Book seems unnecessary...
Members of the Dramatic Club will take part in "The Spirit of Poland," a play for Polish relief, in Jordan Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The play is in five acts, written by Miss Dorothea Murray Hughes, a Radcliffe graduate, is given in aid of the Polish children, and the proceeds will go to the Sienkiewicz fund, and will be cabled at once to Poland, where they will be distributed by the agents of the Polish relief committee. It is being given under the auspices of the "Friends of Poland" of which Mme. Szumowska Adamowska is president...
...compositions, three of the five numbers including pieces composed by members of the University. These original selections comprise compositions for the voice, the violin and the pianoforte. Tickets for the concert may be obtained at Amee Brothers of 25 and 50 cents. All proceeds will be devoted to the relief of French musicians...
...Though not in any way doubting the desirability of this publication under ordinary conditions, it seems to us that the money usually expended in this way could be put to a more beneficial use. While Harvard graduates are raising a ten million dollar endowment; while the committees for war relief in Belgium, Poland, Serbia and Armenia are in pressing need of funds; while the American Ambulance, of particular interest to Harvard men, could make use of unlimited financial aid; have we, in the face of such needs, the right to spend any amount on a work valuable only to ourselves...