SAY HARVARD MUST LEAD IN GOOD WORKS

"Harvard must not be second in good works," J. Henry Scattergood '97 told 150 collectors for the Student Friendship Fund at a dinner for them last night in the Living Room of the Union. The dinner marked the official beginning of the drive for $5000 which will close on the evening of Friday, January 11. F. A. O. Schwarz '24, president of the Student Council, presided.

Mr. R. T. Rich, chairman of the Student Friendship Fund for the eastern district, opened the program by describing the conditions which he had observed among European students, and the methods by which the European Student Relief Association is bringing them assistance. "We are meeting here tonight," he said, "because among the nations of central Europe there are hundreds of thousands of students who are hungry, and unable to buy supper, lacking the one cent for which the European Student Relief will feed them. The education and reconstruction of Europe is at stake today, and by giving help in the time of need, American students can guarantee educated leaders in the future to Europe, make democratic education possible, and bring about an international spirit that alone can solve Europe's problems."

Need New Spirit of Good-Will

Mr. Scattergood, who, as a member of the original Red Cross Committee to France, and also as a worker for the settlement of Europe during the years of reconstruction, has gained a thorough knowledge of the situation, was the next speaker. "Language cannot describe the misery of the economic breakdown of Europe," he said. "Any work of good-will to relieve these people can have the most profound effect of any method that could be devised toward a settlement of international problems. We need a new spirit in international affairs, and with a new spurt, new things are possible. Harvard can have her share in bringing this about."

Describing the "want, suffering, and imparalleled sacrifice" of European students, which he has himself seen on many recent occasions in Europe, Professor Manley O. Hudson L'10 told the collectors there is great danger that learning would not be counted among the survivors in Europe. He spoke of the student relief work as a revival of the spirit of the Middle Ages when a student might go anywhere and be entitled to live on the country, because of the respect in which learning was held.

Vividly Depicts Student Life

Professor Ralph Harlow '08 of Smith College brought most vividly of all before the meeting a picture of the conditions that have prevailed over since the war. He told of living himself among the students, and eating like them for several months only a piece of white bread and a cup of coffee a day "I am personally ashamed of our Universities' record." he said "While Harvard students have been living in plenty, thousands in Europe have been starving, their pinched and haggard faces betraying a terrific struggle for existence. Many of us have despaired of help for Europe coming from her statesmen, all our hopes are centered in her students. By all her great traditions, Harvard belongs in Europe helping them." For the last three years. Professor Harlow has been in charge of the administration of the Student Friendship Fund in Asia Minor