More than 50 children and 12 mothers, all refugees from bomb-torn Britain, have already been placed in homes of faculty members through the help of a committee of American Defense, Harvard Group.

Composed largely of faculty members and their relatives, the refugee committee, known as the Harvard Faculty Committee for the Care of European Children, has made arrangements for handling many more people from England than have actually come to Boston.

Because of the constantly changing plans of families in Britain and the difficulties in obtaining transportation to this continent, members of the Committee can not tell from one day to the next what problems they will have to cope with.

Plans Are Uncertain

Some children who had hoped to find homes here may have gone down with the recently torpedoed refugee ship, The City of Benaros. Others have come here from England before any homes had been provided for them. Many British parents who had originally planned to send their children here have decided to keep them in England.

A direct descendant from the family of John Harvard, 14-year-old Pamela Harvard Williams, will find a home here, living with Mrs. William Chase Green at 60 Shepherd Street. Formerly from Wales, Miss Williams will attend the Buckingham School.

More than 30 homes of University faculty members have been made available for refugees handled by the Boston Transcript, though only a handful of these children are now living in Cambridge, with a few more arriving every day or so. Many of the children are going to private schools in Greater Boston such as Dexter and Buckingham.

Dick Harlow's 'watch-charm' guard Elisha Atkins '42 is living at home for the first time this year in order to handle four refugees. The job doubles Atkins' scrimmage time each day.

Started as a voluntary organization by Alan N. G. Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, the spade work of the committee was done by Little and Henry Hope, also an instructor in Greek and Latin. Titular head of the committee now is Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the committee of Admissions, while Beatrice M. Taussig, daughter-in-law of Professor Taussig, the economist, is in active charge. Gerald F. Else '29, instructor in Greek and Latin, is treasurer. Operating on a shoe string, the committee meets its few expenses through private donations.