Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average brain capacity of 1470 c. c. failed to survive. The average normal brain ranges from 1480 to 1500 c. c. while 1530 indicates high intelligence. Very low grade brains have almost disappeared from the dissecting room since 1919, which Dr. Todd ascribes to the restriction of immigration. Relief statistics of the Cleveland Associated Charities harmonized closely with the record of the skulls...
...important feature of the present campaign is that its expenses are being subscribed separately, so that every cent of the gifts received will be used in direct relief in Europe. From the fact that Harvard has contributed only once before to this cause, that the present drive is the only one to be conducted this year in the University, and that without help, learning abroad is likely to be destroyed entirely by the unparalleled sufferings among the students, the Student Council feels that it is highly important for the University to meet its quota...
With one day of the drive already past, members of the University have subscribed only $619.20 to the Student Friendship Fund for the relief of destitute European students. Three days remain until the close of the drive on Friday, January...
...American universities who have already made large subscriptions upon it, it is felt that the University will meet the desperate appeal of European learning with a generous response. In a letter to the CRIMSON yesterday, John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, expressed his sympathy with the cause of relief and his confidence in the support that will be given it. Several other similar statements have been received...
...want, suffering, and imparalleled sacrifice" of European students, which he has himself seen on many recent occasions in Europe, Professor Manley O. Hudson L'10 told the collectors there is great danger that learning would not be counted among the survivors in Europe. He spoke of the student relief work as a revival of the spirit of the Middle Ages when a student might go anywhere and be entitled to live on the country, because of the respect in which learning was held...