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Furthermore, it makes all donations, on behalf of undergraduates, to local charities in Cambridge and Boston, and to such national organizations as the Red Cross. It gives roughly three thousand dollars to Phillips Brooks House fund. It provides for a number of scholarships for deserving men who are unable to meet a term bill. Thus one purpose of the Student Council pledge system of contributions is to centralize the charitable work of Harvard undergraduates, to aid the worthwhile causes, and to relive students from undesirable solicitation throughout the year...
...Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., where he went to receive an honorary D.C.L. before dedicating a new international bridge across the St. Lawrence River and its Thousand Islands (see p. 34), Franklin Roosevelt declared...
Eons before Franklin Roosevelt strewed Canada's broad Laurentian slope with fistfuls of international amity (see p. 9), Ice Age glaciers had been over the place, scupping out the wide St. Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...
...foot span. Below them rippled a narrow streamer of the St. Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
Undertaken last year by New York's Thousand Islands Bridge Authority, the crossing cost $3.050.000, is expected to pay for itself in 15 years with automobile tolls of $1.25. A series of five two-lane bridges connected by a viaduct and about five miles of highway, it traverses four islands, brings 200 others into view, will be cheaper by more than half, quicker by many times than the ride on the nearby Clayton (N. Y.)-Gananoque ferry...