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...South Entry of University Hall is a room blithely inscribed "Loan Department," to which all students whose fathers are too entangled in the depression net to be of assistance are promisingly referred. Yet in late months there has been a change; too many have come for succor, more than there was money to go around; and now the room stands there with an apologetic air. Legitimate need in Harvard is theoretically covered by three sources, scholarships, beneficiary aid, and loan funds, and none have proved adequate to the exigencies of depression conditions. Scholastic competition has grown so keen that...
...loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...
...again in 1910, he must now write a tremendous chapter in U. S. utility lore. Not until the final plan of reorganization is approved by each fretful banker and every anxious note-holder will Samuel Insull know whether the chapter will be one of collapse and disruption or succor and survival...
...toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just north of Punjab, they sacked 14 villages, fired houses and post offices. State troopers hastily left Srinagar, while Sir Hari appealed frantically for British succor...
...poor man who willed his soul to "his mooste blessed moder, Saint Mary Virgyn, Quene of Heven Lady of the Worlde and Emporesse of Helle." The great man, too, can cry, with the great Vincent de Beauvais: "O Lady, Lady, if thou fail thy servants, who will succor them...