Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American students at Oxford University, England, eight of whom are Rhodes scholars, left last week for Belgium to work under the American commission for relief in the distribution of food. The men are to serve for six weeks, but are trying to get a longer extension of time. The men will work in pairs at remote points, and will have the use of military lines of communication. Many additional applications for leave of absence have been received by the Oxford authorities from Rhodes scholars...
...minister of Belgium who is touring this country to raise funds for the starving and homeless Belgians, will give a lecture tonight in Tremont Temple, Boston, at 7.45 o'clock on "Conditions in Belgium." Admission will be free and a collection will be taken up to go to the relief of the Belgians. A chorus of Belgian refugees will sing their national anthems...
...prominent graduate of the class of '87 said to me yesterday: "Harvard has done practically nothing for charity. Why even small schools have contributed to relief funds, but our University is absolutely unrepresented." If this is literally true, it is shameful. Is it possible that the most broad-minded and humanizing of universities should be totally indiffer- ent to the appalling squalor and starvation of war-rent Europe...
...proceeds from the performance are to go to the German Relief Fund to alleviate the sufferings of non-combatants in Germany. Tickets are now on sale at the Co-operative branch store, Herrick's and by G. Priester sC., 120 Mt. Auburn street...
...passed by but should be received with interest and attention. No organized aid has yet been rendered by Harvard towards the war sufferers beyond a collection made in the Stadium. The CRIMSON suggests that the four undergraduate classes take steps to see what aid Harvard can contribute to the relief of the war sufferers...