Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Golf Association will launch a campaign among the student body for funds for the University golf course for which it is working. This is being planned as the second stop to follow up the exhibition match which was played on October...
...This campaign will be followed by a nation-wide drive among Harvard graduates who are interested in golf. It is hoped to get a large percentage contribution from the student body in order that the alumni may be told that the plan has the strong endorsement of the entire undergraduate body...
Fields of Concentration, like other battlefields, usually have salient geographical characteristics of which the successful general takes advantage in conducting his campaign. If the Alps are in his way, the modern tactician usually does not attempt to scale them with his A's and B's and other white elephants, but maps out his course over a smoother ground. He sees ahead of him the threatening cloud of examinations, he is appalled by its menacing aspect, and he seeks protection along the more sheltered road of Geology or Astronomy. Even after making his start on the Appian...
...measures that are best for his country, is betraying his trust. But it seems that something very like breach of trust is the order of the day, for representatives, when an organized few threaten them with failure at the next election, immediately bury their better judgments under tons of campaign truckling and subserviency. When legislators thus live with their ears to the ground, an unorganized minority of agitators, by stamping and kicking hard enough, can tear down any sane government in the face of a more passive majority...
...necessary sixty percent of the class to cast their votes. The whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular support. This motion, however, was not seconded...