Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the last six men will sleep their last two nights within the Indoor Athletic Building's grim confines, University-wide reaction might well become a final sigh of relief. But the end of one dramatically unsavory incident in the student housing crisis of 1947 does not amount to any sort of end to the crisis itself. While the administrative handling of the unexpected influx this Fall has been smooth for the most part, and conspicuously creditable in intercollegiate comparison, room exists to point out specific shortcomings. Furthermore, in the face of the problem's continuing complexity some high imagination...
Commending the University on its program to save food, the group called for the allocation of all money and provisions saved by Harvard in following the President's food policy to student relief in Europe, as it held its first general membership meeting of the term...
...month which will be saved by the Radcliffe economies outlined by Miss Lillian Burdakin, college dietitian, will be added to the Radcliffe Student Government's contribution to European student relief...
...strength of a quick look backward to previous tussles with this recurring crisis of the Forties, the Student Council might well undertake a two-fold program. The first and most crucial aspect would entail revitalizing its Relief Committee. Here the emphasis must fall upon providing a sense of personal student participation in aiding the shipment of food and other supplies to specific parties abroad. For the second phase of its program the Council should seriously consider a plan for stopping general food waste in the dining halls. While this is an impersonal method, the results will fit neatly into...
...Council must swing into action on existing long-range plans by immediately polling in the dining halls. If the student body lends a mandate to conservation, the Council could then present the University with its final proposals-and ask transferral of all financial savings from the slashes to its Relief Committee for channeling to the Unitarian and Friends Service Committees. The wishful weakness of a national "voluntary" approach can through such implementation find bolstering...