Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate fellowships for study in Belgium for 1925-26 are to be awarded on April 1, it was announced yesterday by the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Applications for these fellowships must be in by February...
These fellowships are established to commemorate the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium during the World War. Each is worth 15,000 francs besides tuition at the Belgian schools and first class traveling expenses to and from the institution chosen. The fellowships are open to both men and women and are to be held for one year. All American fellows will be required to report in Brussels on October 1 and to stay in Belgium at least eight months. The choice of the Belgian university where he is to study is left to the fellows...
...interest and support away from the humanities, is destroyed. The requirement of an academic degree for admission to the business school has removed from the undergraduate the temptation to sacrifice liberal arts to business; and the physical separation of the two departments will soon be carried out to the relief of both. Meanwhile, Harvard receives Mr. Ayres' commendation humbly, with one eye on the pitfalls recently negotiated, and one eye on the dubious quagmires of future policy...
...came as a relief to the people on both sides of the Rhine that both Governments agreed, in the event of a final rupture of the treaty negotiations, that there would be no dread tariff war. France made known that her general tariff rates (for all countries not benefiting by a most favored nation treaty) would apply to German goods. Germany declared that her single tariff for all countries would be applied to French goods...
...that, in a Province where the harvest is officially recognized as insufficient, peasants are pillaging trains loaded with wheat and eat a mixture of the bark of trees and horse refuse. Famine, unpitying and inexorable, is drawing ever nearer in the country districts of Russia. This time an American relief association will not come. The Bolshevist policy has closed the door to it. They will know this in the Russian countryside...