Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...endeavor for more efficient co-operation. While labor tends to eliminate its striking habits, and the new draftees, their awkwardness, we perceive the United States getting ever stronger. Even the most energetic pessimist, lately at the height of his powers, suffers a serious repulse. His old standby, the submarine campaign, will soon be useless. His discomfort and lack of subjects prevent our hearing how bad conditions are. Although the warnings of a true pessimist may spur us on to more vigorous action, yet they tend to bring comfort to our enemies. Too much optimism, however, is little more valuable...
Arthur S. Johnson '85, head of the Boston Y. M. C. A., and director of the Red Triangle Fund Campaign of Metropolitan Boston, praised the work which has been done by the Red Triangle Committee in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. His statement is as follows...
...work done by your committee is excellent, and I consider the highest praise due to those who directed the campaign and to those who actually put it into execution...
Through the eleventh hour efforts of the University campaign committee, fifty thousand dollars is Harvard's contribution to the Red Triangle War Fund. It is true of all campaigns that more words of inveigling are directed toward the public than terms of praise after the goal has been reached. The present case, however, demands a general recognition of splendid work. The University has answered the call of this Y. M. C. A. fund in a way which has surpassed our fondest hopes. The subscription was not from a few, but from a great majority, so that we may extend...
...order was received yesterday at the Charlestown Navy Yard to enroll 5,000 more men in the Naval. Reserve of the First Naval District. It is expected that a campaign will be started at once to recruit men up to the required number. An order also came to call into active service nearly all of the reservists who are at present on the rolls but unassigned to regular duty, except those in schools and colleges...