Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thus it is seen that really great numbers of Harvard men are actually in Europe, and closely associated with the relief of the suffering and destruction that is the inevitable price of war. Besides such as I have named there are the two Harvard units. Beyond those in hospital work there are, of course, the Harvard men in the Ambulance service, those actually engaged in the war, and those in the diplomatic services. The number is creditable and the work such as we know it, has, we hope, been of some aid and support, along the best lines of endeavor...
...includes, besides several rooms for special purposes, the main hall, a room of considerable size, provided with two steel and glass galleries and surrounded by a triple row of steel herbarium cases. This room, well lighted and equipped with furnishings highly perfected for its purposes, contains also a bronze relief of Dr. Gray by Saint Gaudens, several busts, and many portraits of distinguished botanists...
...Harvard Club of London War Relief Fund is established for the special purpose of instantly responding to such calls, primarily from the Harvard Hospital Units and Ambulances, and for Harvard relief of the starving and homeless...
...planning to establish a war relief fund in London to be drawn upon as emergency requires, the Harvard Club of London is making a wise and clear-sighted move. The horror and devastation of war falls suddenly upon a community and much suffering can be avoided if aid can be rushed to the scene immediately. When an appeal has to be sent out across the ocean or even to nearer countries, valuable time is necessarily lost in gathering together the resources...
Many different relief departments are constantly asking for aid which it is impossible to give promptly. Consequently the originators of the scheme for a base fund hope for an immediate as well as a generous response to their appeal...