Word: reliefs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Student Council last night decided to conduct a Student Friendship Drive early in January to raise $5,000 for the aid of needy students in central and Eastern Europe. Nearly all the colleges in the Country are combining to aid in collecting several hundred thousand dollars for European relief. The chairman of this committee will be appointed later...
...these isles of illusion. It is not easy to define the intangible something that led and kept him there. Cursed with an introspective and sensitive mind, and possessed of a goodly amount of fastidiousness, he ran a gamut of hope, disgust, and despair in which he found little relief and small comfort. His native wife proved a temporary and fallacious hope, and soon passed with other phases of his experience. And yet at the end comes a note of peace. As he gazes at the moonlit surf of Moumou he writes, "I think I am just beginning to know what...
...International Golden Rule Sunday was suggested by the International Near East Association at its conference in Goneva last September. The plan as there adopted provides that individuals and families throughout the world will forego their usual varied meal and give the difference in cost to the Near East Relief. Americans will feel especially the contrast between their fare and that of the child of Asia Minor, for the Golden Rule dinner follows close upon Thanksgiving...
...Dwight M. Donaldson '21 and Dr. Phillips F. Greene M. '19 are associated with the Near East Relief. On its Board of Trustees are three University men. President Eliot, Hon, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and General Leonard Wood...
...Last summer, after my return to Germany, I travelled on to Vienna. Judging from the conditions there, the Viennese had an even harder time but they, in their misfortune, had attracted the attention of mankind. Foreign relief societies and foreign bankers had combined to assimilate the rehabilitation of Austria. The Austrians were working for their eventual prosperity, and working hard, because they felt that they were getting somewhere. It seemed to them that they had rounded the corner and that conditions from then on would become slowly better, until, in their children's time, the country would have returned...