Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complete the undergraduate quota of $4000 for the Phillips Brooks House Association Drive, which will end this evening. At 11 o'clock last night the amount for the day had just passed the thousand dollar mark, bringing the total to something over $2200 since the beginning of the campaign last Wednesday evening...
...eminent professor's idea is a good one: to denounce slang in terms of slang; to turn the enemy's own guns upon him. But the campaign might well be carried further by the embattled members of the Society for the Preservation of Pure English. George Ade, with his "Fables in Slang" could be given a chair in the Department of Classics; Ring Lardner should be appointed to a professorship in English; and Rube Goldberg ought immediately to be elected president of the Advocate...
...care for the mob; they are forced, however reluctantly, to restrict their numbers, put up the bars turn their backs on the democracy that was one of their cherished ideals in the dear dead days, etc., etc. But strangely enough they do nothing to modify the great annual advertising campaign that brings the candidates swarming about their ivied portals. We refer of course, to the intercollegiate football season...
...late hour last night. Three and a half hours of collecting, following the dinner given to the collectors at the Phillips Brooks House, netted the sum of $1284.25. According to W. I. Tibbets '17, graduate secretary of the Association, the sum collected on the first night of the campaign this year is unprecedented...
...quota for the Graduate Schools has been set at $1500. R. L. Olson 3 Gr. will be in charge of the drive in all the graduate schools in Cambridge excepting the Law School. R. K. Stevens 3L will run the Law School campaign, T. G. Klumpp 3M, the Medical School, and N. G. Newman 4DM the Dental School. The campaign in the graduate schools will be run over a longer period of time and largely by personal letters...