Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appreciate greatly your generous effort as an aid in emergency and has humanitarian attitude --Albert Einstein...
...well to adopt as speedily as possible the Y.M.C.A.'s plan for relief to Chinese scholars which they now have under consideration. Secondly, true toleration is devoid of political motives, and the student body should have been give a greater guarantee that their contributions will be attributed to the humanitarian motives which inspired them...
...humanitarian spirit behind the activities of the Harvard Refugee Committee is splendid. Indeed, the spirit behind all the present nationwide agitation to raise money to get the Jews out of Germany is splendid.... It is a spirit all too easy to yield to. But I can't. I find myself looking beyond into the possible consequences of this movement to get the Jews out of Germany...
Telegrams commending the drive continued to pour into the offices of the Committee in Adams House. Albert Einstein, a world-renowned mathematician and himself a German refugee, wired "Appreciate greatly your generous effort as aid in emergency and as humanitarian attitude." Frances Farmer, Broadway and Hollywood star, sent her best wishes, as did Helen Hayes, the first lady of the stage...
Neither does the Corporation's rejection of responsibility detract from its recognition of the need for America to demonstrate tolerance for those being persecuted abroad. It has in effect applauded the humanitarian ideal of the Undergraduate Committee, and this must be remembered when in the future the occasion arises to defend Harvard liberalism. The number of the scholarships appears to be sensible; it approves assistance without basing assistance on an impractical and overemotional scheme; it condemns the Nazis with caution. Moreover, it points the course for other colleges in this country to pursue. For a widespread assertion of our faith...