Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the campaign directors have not disclosed their actual goal, they will canvass every house in the college with the hope of receiving $10 from every student...
Three causes which will receive money from the campaign may be observed in action during the year. Two of the three aid Harvard students almost exclusively, while the third, Phillips Brooks House, acts in the interest of Boston's underprivileged as well as undergraduates...
...wasn't until March 20, 1924 that the fund drive Dean Donham called for got underway. However, under the late William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, the campaign was unexpectedly concluded in little more than a month when the late George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, wrote the University offering $5,000,000 if he could "have the privilege of building the whole school...
Claiming that this was "the only trapeziform dining hall in America," Mason said the Society would launch a public enlightenment campaign to acquaint people with the new tradition...
...chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...