Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School of Commerce at Antwerp and the School of Mining Engineers at Mons. Some of them are now at Oxford and a few are coming to Harvard. For the purpose of aiding these men, who for various causes are ineligible for the military service, the Cambridge University Belgian Relief Fund has been organized and an appeal made especially to members of Harvard, which is represented by Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the English Department...
Eight hundred thousand Serbian women and children will starve unless they can obtain grain for seed and tools to work with next summer. Madame Slavko Grouitch, the American wife of the Serbian under-secretary for foreign affairs, is in the United States to organize a relief expedition, and she wants college men as volunteers to go to Europe with automobiles in June. The automobiles are to be the property of the men who take them out; transportation will be furnished, but the owner must be prepared to meet the expenses of maintenance. In some cases of exceptional ability arrangements...
Madame Grouitch's appeal for funds and supplies is being backed by a number of influential men in America. J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, are receiving subscriptions and are acting as agents for the newly-formed Serbian relief committee, the president of which is President Eliot...
...said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity but has oppressed every family of the world. He gave special advice to this country, the richest in the world, to strengthen its armament moderately and more strenuously to provide relief for the children working in our factories and for the better care of our sexagenarians...
...Crozier 3G., who has recently returned from the American Hospital at Paris, gives an interesting account of the work which is attracting so many Harvard men to volunteer in the relief work. While in Paris he came in contact with a number of Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, who are doing hospital and ambulance work...