Word: foods
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...According to Admiral Peary's idea, Polar exploration was nothing more than a problem in transportation--a problem of how to carry the most food in the most compact form. Peary's plan by which he reached the North Pole was to lead his sieds with food, and to send them back for more supplies as soon as their cargoes were exhausted. In this way, he just reached his goal, if he had fifty more miles to go he would have turned back...
...Hoover has stated the situation with his usual directness and brevity. In the desolated parts of Europe today, the parts which cannot provide even the scantiest food to keep all their population alive, there are three million and a half children, being fed by supplies from this country. If these supplies should fail for a fortnight, those three million and a half innocent little boys and girls would perish. We must see to feeding them through the winter until next year's crops become available, about the middle of July...
...provide the necessary food, Mr. Hoover estimates that thirty million dollars will be required, and already in every city and town of the United States, a committee is working to collect the funds. This is an object which Harvard men cannot pass by. One dollar given will keep a child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most...
...management has spared no effort to reduce costs of heat, light, and labor, and still be able to serve food of high quality. It was found that only a small amount of expense could be cut down. They state that Commons cannot be successfully operated until a system is instituted similar to that at the University where a nucleus is formed by compelling the Freshmen to eat in the University dining halls; or similar to that at Princeton where the two lower classes are compelled to eat at the university dining halls...
...Leach, Jr. '22 Fintan, the Astrologer, Burke Boyee '22 Taig, Philip Wardner '24 Sibby, Taig's Mother, Miss Elizabeth Gatlin '23 Gatekeeper, F. C. d'Elseaux Une Two Aunts of the Prince of the Marshes, Miss Eleanor McCormack '21 Miss Marjorie Toland '21 Foreign Men Bringing in Food, M. A. Best '23 H. C. Lodge, Jr., '24 The Dragon, J. M. Brown...