Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What if some vagrant urchin did press the unlucky fire-button which started all the excitement? What if Claverly Hall was not in flames, as some of the scurrying undergraduates fondly and audibly hoped? We have been generously treated to a free and frantic demonstration of the quite exciting efficiency of the fire-fighters and hose-hoisters of Cambridge, who late forbade two successive smokers in the poor old Union. If the impact of final examinations or the discreet and tinder-dry celebration of Class Day should somehow cause spontaneous combustion hereabouts, we know that they will be at hand...
...members of 1918 are asked to submit designs for the Senior button to D. L. Richardson, Holworthy 6, before February 4. The design must be in the class colors, green and white, and must be simple in design. The man who hands in the winning design will receive a free button...
...Gross '19, chairman of the committee, the number of memberships already reported warrants the statement that over 1,000 students are now members of the organization. "Everyone who is approached now," he stated in summing up the work of the committee, "is able to show his 1918 Red Cross button. Almost every student in the University has paid his dollar membership fee, either--through the committee or in some other...
...last night the reports of the University Red Cross Committee showed that almost one thousand members of the University already have the right to wear the celluloid button which designates its owner as a member of the greatest organization in the country. The remaining thousand have only until this evening to do their small part towards a great cause--a cause which is so big that it can make the best possible use of the smallest contribution. One dollar is a small initiation fee for such a society; even with war taxes on railroad fares and Pullman seats...
...Cross Committee is asking all University students to enroll in the $1 membership, for which those registered will receive a button and a certificate of their application. Those who have not subscribed since October 1 are expected to join or renew membership at this time, since the new subscription is for the year 1918 and does not expire until January...