WSSF Mobilizes Forces To Aid Foreign Schools

With a canvassing and clerical force of almost 500 mobilized here and at Radcliffe, Samuel M. Robbins '45, newly-designated chairman of the University branch of the World Student Service Fund for the rehabilitation of foreign scholarship, promised last night that "we'll make 'em forget what apathy feels like," in pressing for a $20,000 quota.

High-powered door-to-door solicitation of everyone in the College and the Graduate Schools will begin the morning of April 6. Faculty contributions will be requested by mail. Five dollars per man is the aim, but top committeemen have been setting their sights even higher at preliminary meetings.

Will Give Support to Four Foreign Universities

Overseas seats of learning "adopted' by the Committee for this third world student relief drive are the universities in Athens, Peiping, Delhi, and Heidelberg. The school at East Punjab, India, was included, Robbins said, because W.S.S.F. officials felt that greatest support could be registered here for this slightly less dramatic but no less needy area.

Harvard, Robbins noted, led every university in the country last spring with a figure of $20,000.

No lack of self help has been shown, however, with students in some European areas mining coal for winter fuel after study hours.

He added that although considerable advances in educational facilities had been achieved in some scattered places, contributions are still needed not for any academic luxuries, or even printed books, but food and shelter.

Foreign Students Write

Letters are still being received from foreign students who were able to carry on their work only through the benefits of last year's College contributions.

Official endorsement last night came from Dean Bender who authorized the committee. "By supporting the drive," he stated, "Harvard will demonstrate its concern for and moral support of a group who will help to shape the world of tomorrow. I hope the students and faculty will respond generously.

Robbins expressed the hope that Bender's statement would spur the faculty, in particular, to more enthusiastic backing than last year, when they fell somewhat behind other University groups.