Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military activities at Harvard during the last two years that the loss of his valuable supervision and keen interest will be regretted by the entire University. No more splendid administrative record rests to the credit of any man. Added to this he has carried on a country-wide campaign for national preparedness that has aroused the youth of this country to their patriotic responsibilities and the older generation to the shocking need of legislation for large military appropriations...
Four hundred and one men enlisted in the Spanish war, the largest number of whom were in the First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders." The men were in the fiercest fighting, and bore the most desperate hardship in the Santiago campaign. Two prominent graduates of Harvard, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, won their promotions in this campaign...
...American Field Ambulance Service is starting a campaign to secure men for one or possibly two more units to be sent to France next June. It will also be possible for those men who wish to start work earlier to do so. The recruiting station at 17 Grays Hall will be reopened and information concerning the character and length of the service may be obtained there daily from 5 to 6 o'clock, or from W. H. Wheeler, Jr., '18 at 27 Holyoke street...
...hope that this editorial is only the first of a series waging a campaign for the new education in schools and colleges. We eagerly look forward for instance to a damnation of higher mathematics. It is such a useless study. What chance will a Wall Street clerk ever have of applying his calculus to his life-work? And then, too, you know it is so dreadfully difficult. Men sometimes spend thirty consecutive minutes pondering over a lot of mysterious signs and symbols--really, it is pitiful...
From the canvassing campaign which will end tonight, the Junior Class finance committee hopes to realize the $1,300 necessary to carry on 19-18 class activities to the end of the year, as well as to pay for the past two smokers. Those who attend the class dinner on April 30 will be charged one dollar each, and since this will not be enough to cover expenses, one dollar for each man will be taken from the amount collected turned in today. After the two past smokers have been paid for, the number of smokers to follow will...