Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting bigger scholarships to gifted students is one step to better the situation. But alloting stipends such as the Emergency Relief Administration maximum of $20 a month is only to prolong the misery. Nothing short of an economic revolution can provide everyone with funds sufficient for proper utilization of academic opportunity. Until then, the affirmation of President Dennett of Williams deserves attention: "What appears to be needed is not more college graduates, but fewer and better ones...
...arrival of winter, the problem of street-corner begging reappears, owing to the prolongation of the depression. While it is true that many of the applicants are eminently worthy of aid, the willy-nilly giving of dimes by college students offers no substantial solution of the problem of relief and only encourages an already intolerable situation...
...University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement...
...small, aristocratic Williams, new President Tyler Dennett made his first big news in office by accompanying his refusal of aid with a thoroughgoing attack on the whole program. His arguments were the standard ones against government relief in any form: 1) It helps the unfit to survive. ''What appears to be needed is not more college graduates but fewer and better ones." 2) By accepting aid in an emergency, colleges will be demoralized into permanent dependence on the Government. "I therefore regard this procedure as little less than deplorable. I think it would be much better to request...
...Manhattan, once every week, to a grubby little room on Eighth Avenue went a check from the city relief bureau. The old couple who lived there were always waiting. First thing they did when the check arrived was to buy a bottle of gin. Then they sat on the stairs, guzzled gin, laughed and howled and slapped each other on the back. Last fortnight, after one of their bouts, the tipsy husband tried to light the gas heater. While he fumbled with the matches, gas flooded the room, brought Death to the old couple...