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Without any solicitations from student committees, Oberlin and the Universityof Minnesota sent checks to the Unitarian Service Committee totaling $1,750. In other colleges, organized campaigns produced the following results: at Barnard, with a student body of 1,500, $2,500; at Wellesley, with slightly more than 1,600 students, $4,000; at Smith, with an enrollment...
...world-weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship...
...remoteness. Nine miles from the mainland, it has only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
...Paris, according to a letter from the Unitarian Service Committee representative in that city, "the average calorific value of meals for one day at the University of Paris is 1,400 calories...
...Unitarian service Committee representative in Vienna sent as telegram from Geneva on July 20, which said in part: "Harvard student action meets terrible need Austrian universities. Situation Vienna students particularly catastrophic. . . . Committee of wronged students who during Hitler ear excluded from university for racial reasons and active participation resistance movement. This Komitee Der Geschaedigten Studenten has 1,500 members certified victims of Nazism. . . . These students now lacking resources are forced to earn livelihood on the side irrespective of extreme malnutrition and illnesses contracted during long confinement camps. . . . Many valuable students lacking physical strength to continue face giving up studies. Anticipated...