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President Also Offers Other Aid to State in Crisis

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED September 29, 1938

President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires.

Conant also offered any of the University's facilities to the State during the emergency period. As state and federal authorities worked on plans of fire prevention, Shepard urged the need for haste, calling the danger "appalling."