Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report given out last night by the Greater Boston Committee of the Harvard Endowment Fund Campaign, it was indicated that in this district the most effective work during the last week has been done by the manufacturing, financial, medical, architectural, trustee and insurance groups of the campaigners. The above groups have so far obtained more than half of their allotment, as in comparison with the 40 per cent, covered by the three next highest groups. The remaining 11 groups are somewhat lower than this, while the general average for the whole city stands at 41 per cent...
...University is not the only educational institution which is meeting the problem of the acute needs of its instructing staff by attempting to raise a large endowment fund. A campaign for the raising of a similar endowment fund, $10,000,000, for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is being made nationwide throughout Technology alumni centers over the entire country...
Reports received last night show that Boston has been steadily gaining on New York in the Endowment Fund campaign during the last few days. At present Boston is only $87,000 behind the leader, owing to the securing of gifts amounting to $2,163,000. New York's total now stands...
...Greater Boston District. This means that there are still 9000 men in the district who have not yet been called on, considerable delay having been caused by incomplete address lists. As a result, it has been announced by Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, chairman of the local committee, that the campaign will continue in Boston until every alumnus in the district has been called upon. This probably means several weeks longer, at the least...
...touch of sentiment was added to the interesting incidents of the campaign yesterday when $50 was given by a relative in "memory of 'John, the Orangeman'," a famous old character, well known in the Yard until his death a few years...