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While comparisons are always odious and, inconclusive, it is worth while to point out that Harvard has no consolidated employment report embracing all opportunities for financial assistance or self-help which are open to its students. The total Harvard effort, however, need not fear comparison with that of any other educational institution. Only it is well to consider facts not fancies in making such comparisons. J. W. D. Seymour...
...interested to hear of the plans which the colleges and schools of America are making to continue their support of the Student Friendship Fund for European Student Relief. I have known intimately its relief program--its student kitchens in Russia, the assistance given refugee students, and its development of self-help organizations in other lands...
...loan banks to which all who can contribute, and from which the most gifted students, regardless of social status, receive money without interest during the months before their final exams. John R. Mott, through the World's Student Christian Federation, has been largely instrumental in the success of these self-help activities. The Society of Friends (American Quakers) have cooperated...
...schools is necessary if European education is to be saved from complete collapse, but also that the work of the Student Friendship Fund is contributing strongly to the development of a new spirit and a new morale in Europe, a democratic education has been made possible by the self-help activities instituted, the students have discarded their former unwillingness to work, and even professors may now be found engaging in heavy manual labor...
Former Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, Republican National Committeeman for Illinois, who is thought by many to bear a marked resemblance to the Great Emancipator, is among those actively interested in the founding. A self-help institution where bankbooks are of secondary importance is his hope for the project...