Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...carry with team academic distinction of high rank as well as the financial stipend. Men of medium rank, as well as of high rank, and in fact all students who are ambitious in their various lines, would do well to investigate the list. There may be something there to appeal to them...
...appeal has been issued from the Treasurer of the Senior class, urging more subscriptions to the class fund and a prompt payment of the first instalment on the sums already pledged. The class of 1908 has less than a month left of undergraduate life and only 248 men have made any response to the Treasurer's original request for subscriptions. Considerably less than half of the amount due has been paid in, and the total amount subscribed so far, $10,795, is much below the average. The report of the 1907 class Treasurer shows a total available fund...
...There is still $300 more needed, so those who can afford to give more liberally are urgently asked to help in pushing this project through. The committee and its assistants are endeavoring to see every member of the class, but, of course, some men cannot be easily reached. We appeal to such men to remember that this is a class gift and a memorial to our friend and we ask them to contribute at once as much as possible...
...yesterday relief funds poured into the burned city. A fund started by Lee, Higginson & Co. aggregated over $10,000, $15,000 was donated by the state, $26,000 was appropriated by the neighboring city of Lynn, and large sums were sent from Somerville, Malden and other cities. An appeal has been made to all the cities and towns in Massachusetts, it is expected that at least $1,000,000 will be needed to relieve the distress adequately...
...general sort of way, have long been foremost in our minds. He has touched every side of life in a straightforward and manly way, adding by his won personality an irresistible charm to the breadth of his absorbing subject. For an organized society he has made a special appeal, and we of Harvard can appreciate his earnest deprecation of its fragmentary nature. We have long appreciated it, as the CRIMSON has already pointed out, and have urged upon our doubting elders the advisability of class dormitories, class undertakings, and University "esprit de corps," as fostered by intercollegiate games...