Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal stresses the obligation of Harvard faculty members to contribute towards the needs of the community, and adds: "In comparison with most other classes of citizens in this community the officers of Harvard University, having suffered no reduction of salary, are a financially favored group. The general public has a right to expect us to do our full share in such times as these. There is an obligation resting upon us is do as a body, much more this year than we did last year toward helping some of the thousands among our fellow citizens who are constantly facing privations...
Under the chairmanship of Professor Hall, the Harvard committee launched its drive among the faculty last night, with an appeal mailed to about 1,200 officers of the University. With the assent of the Corporation, the committee is asking the salaried officers of the University to make voluntary contributions. Obligation of Faculty...
...appeal is signed by six professors. In addition to Professor Hall, the members of the committee are W. B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; C. W. Killam, professor of Architecture; Calvert Magruder, professor of Law; S. H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics; and G. W. Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics...
...decision which would have seemed revolutionary to the people who drove to the opera in broughams. He suggested that Opera in New York be made everybody's problem. From the Metropolitan Opera House, which New York's oldest families have controlled exclusively for 50 years, came an appeal for public donations...
...stating that the theory utilizes the "calm and sensible equilibrium" is not absolutely clear; nor, is it apparent just what the biological basis for the solution of financial, industrial and governmental problems actually may be. Obscurity may prove to be one of the theory's strong points of appeal, however, for in the light of current history certainly, the attractiveness of novel schemes seems to vary inversely with their capacity to be clearly understood...