Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beginning of the present campaign for the gymnasium fund, tomorrow was fixed by the committee as the day on which all pledges of the three upper classes should be paid. Owing to good organization and diligent work, the committees are able to submit a good report today, but the amount set as a goal has not been reached by any means. The Senior class has failed utterly to respond to the urgent requests of the committees, the amount collected from them being only $13. Besides $240 in new pledges from the Freshmen, $1180.75 has been collected as follows...
Major-General Wood has seen varied service in army affairs. He was in the Spanish-American War and won distinction in the Cuban campaign. Upon Roosevelt's becoming President; Wood was made chief-of-staff over the heads of several men who were his seniors in point of years and service. General Wood has held this post ever since, and has been active in advocating a more coherent organization of the army. He has raised the number of men in the military branch of the service to nearly full complement...
...active campaign for payment of Gymnasium pledges will close this week on Friday, and every man who signed a pledge last year, supposedly in good faith, will be expected to have it paid by that date. By that time there will be no further excuse for those men who were unable to pay last week, until the first of the month, and it can only be supposed that those men who have not paid, or arranged for payment by then, intend to withdraw their support, and deny their pledges. GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...campaign for the collection of gymnasium pledges by the sub-committees chosen from the four classes has been extended another week. One week has proved inadequate for accomplishing the payment of pledges still due. The committees are progressing slowly, but the amounts are steadily advancing and it is hoped that the allotment of extra time will be sufficient to cause most of the men who still owe money to pay up. The amounts collected up to last night are as follows: Freshman sub-committee--$183.00 Sophomore sub-committee--$143.75. Junior sub-committee $44.00 The Senior sub-committee...
...Freshman sub-committee will also continue the canvass of their class. The first half-payment of Freshman pledges signed during the previous campaign fell due last week. The second payment will be due on April 1. Half of the amounts pledged by Freshmen in this week's campaign will be due April 1, the remainder...