STUDENT SERVICE FUND MET BY LOCAL, NATIONAL CHARITIES

Instituted for the first time this fall, the Harvard Service Fund will endeavour to cover all charities, thus freeing students from the soliciting of many different organizations. In order to fulfill this work, as well as meet the demands of new charities, and increased war budgets, the Fund will ask this year for a contribution of seven dollars per student.

Although several members of the Student Council are on the committee in charge of the Fund, the organization is independently run by a selected group of undergraduates, and divides the greater part of the funds collected among six large charities, thus avoiding the necessity of canvassing each student separately for each charity.

P.B.H. Heads List

At the head of the list stands Phillips Brooks House, through whose hands passes most of the educational and philanthropic work of the College in greater Boston. In addition to its usual peacetime duties Phillips Brooks House now finds added the task of providing a center for Navy officers stationed at Harvard and their wives. The money provided from the Student fund will be used only for running expenses.

Last year roughly $2700 worth of scholarships were given out through funds collected from the whole College. These awards on the whole were small, and given not for scholastic standing but for any desperate need with which the student might suddenly be faced because of threatening lack of funds.

USO and Red Cross

Next on the list of larger charities covered by the fund will be the USO and then the Red Cross, both of which need no introduction to the student body. The Boston Community Fund has often been condemned by students from other states as an unnecessary burden, but when it is realized the amount of fire and police protection the community affords each student, a small contribution to the Community Fund in way of repayment of this debt, is not too much to ask.

Last on the list is the World Student Service Fund whose work is probably unknown to most College students. The WSSF is an international student relief organization. It grants scholarships to students abroad and to foreign students here. It also provides books, writing materials, and teachers for people detained in prison camps, and concentration camps all over the world.

Chairman of the entire committee is Thomas Matters '43, while the administration of the funds will be in the hands of John Richardson, Jr. '43. In charge of publicity will be John W. Sullivan '43, and working under him, Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, J. Robert Moskin '44, Thomas S. Kuhn '44, Myron S. Kaufman '43, Robert S. Kieve '43, and Edward H. Mahoney '44. Another large group on the committee will consist of a representative of each House. Other members at large are Donald Forte '43, George M. Burditt '44, Hugh M. Hyde '44, Darcy Curwen '43, and F. Barton Harvey '43. John E. Sawhill, Jr. '43 will be chairman of the committee in charge of the organization of the drive, and will be aided by David E. Place '43.