Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hundred thousand dollars with which to finance a campaign for recruits for training camps next summer is to be raised by the Military Training Association. The money is to be expended under the supervision of a committee including Mayor Mitchel, President Lowell, and presidents of Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other leading educational institutions, and representatives of the Plattsburg Business Men's Camp Association, and the various camps that have been held for the training of college students...
Experience has shown, according to a statement of the committee, that recruiting for citizen camps must be conducted through strong civilian organizations, and that if results are to be accomplished "a thorough and well-organized campaign must be conducted...
...campaign has been undertaken by the Pittsburg alumni of Princeton to raise funds with which to meet the university's deficit for the current year. The Princeton Alumni Association of Western Pennsylvania is in charge of the work, and has divided the members into groups, according to the years of matriculation of the men. The classes graduated during the last fifteen years are reported as having already raised a considerable amount of money...
...Boston lawyer, is charged with having taken a false oath and designed a false certificate in connection with the assessment of W. Townsent '16 of Oct. 11, 1915, at the office of the Board of Assessors. A. K. Reading, a lawyer and the manager of Mayor Rockwood's campaign for mayor, and Representative K. P. Hill were the witnesses heard today. Reading was examined and cross-examined at length, but Hill's direct examination was brief, and he was not cross-examined. Herbert Parker, senior counsel for the defence, rested after Hill left the stand and called no witnesses...
...championship Cornell track squad, with an abundance of good material on hand, has started its campaign to capture the 1916 intercollegiate honors. The chief objects in view at present are the relay games of the B. A. A. on February 5, one or two other meets, and the big indoor carnival to be held by the I. C. A. A. A. A. in New York on March 4; but Coach Moakley has begun the process of sorting out his best men for the various events to be contested in the championship games next spring...