Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...campaign for more student volunteers to attend the Plattsburg camps and join the Naval Cruise this summer was launched at a meeting over which Major H. L. Higginson '55 presided, in the Union last night. In his introductory talk Major Higginson declared that just as we come to the University to prepare ourselves for life, it is essential also that we go to Plattsburg to prepare to defend home and nation, and that it is every man's duty to learn to serve his country...
Next week will be Preparedness Week at Harvard. A campaign to swell the number of enrolments for the Plattsburg Camps and the Naval Cruise will be launched at the mass meeting to be held in the Union tonight. Although some interest has been taken in getting men to enroll, there has not been sufficient enthusiasm or system. A university of Harvard's size ought to send a delegation of seven hundred men to the Plattsburg Camps alone. Both those who have already signed up for the Training Camps or Cruise, and those who have thought of enrolling should make...
...starting of other undergraduates publications--the Magneta (the name changed to CRIMSON after a successful campaign by the Advocate to restore crimson as the University color); the daily papers, the Echo, and the Herald (now the CRIMSON); the Monthly, and the Illustrated--led to keen competition. In 1882 a plan to consolidate the CRIMSON (then a fortnightly) and the Advocate was voted down in the Advocate board by one vote. Three or four years later, when both the Lampoon and Advocate were in financial straits, there was even some talk of combining these two publications...
...friends of Poland, a society recently formed in this country to aid their countrymen in Poland, are carrying on today a "rose campaign" in Boston and Cambridge. There will be no tagging or button-holing in the Yard, but the roses will be on sale at Memorial Hall, the Union, and at the different clubs. Buy a rose and save a child in Poland...
Today's contribution is the University's share in the state-wide campaign to raise a large sum of money for the relief of the starving multitudes in Poland. Practically all the babies of the country have already died; it is the purpose of this collection to save the children while there is yet time...