Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...financial campaign to support the work of Phillips Brooks House has so far been attended by only partial success. Only a few of those who know the Brooks House well and have been among its loyal friends in the past are back in Cambridge this fall. These men have responded to the call, but the need is greater than they realize. So it is to the new men, Harvard Freshmen and men of the S. A. T. C. not vitally connected with the University that the canvassers are forced to look...
During the week members of the under age unit have been fitted with uniforms. The men have been given the same O. D. suits that were worn last year by members of the University R. O. T. C. For the present they are wearing campaign hats, and as yet no insignia have been issued...
Today marks the close of the annual campaign to secure contributions for Phillips Brooks House. Although the collection has been fairly successful so far, much remains to be done. In place of the usual social service work, this institution will act as a Y. M. C. A. for the training corps. Its building is not only well equipped with writing and reading rooms, but it is also the best and most convenient place for students to meet and receive their families or friends. Those who camped at Barre in 1917 as well as those who were quartered in Smith Hall...
...since then in the Army. As a commissioned officer most of his service has been with the Twenty-First Infantry. The "fortunes of war" have carried him to Alaska, Cuba, and the Philippines, and into most of the northern states of the Union. When a second lieutenant during the campaign in 1877 against Chief Joseph, he was twice wounded in action. Company A of the Twenty-First Infantry was undress's immediate command in the Battle of Sintiago...
...always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than a Liberty Loan campaign for arousing patriotic spirit and putting the whole nation behind the wheel of war. Bonds have their serious limitations, but they stir the popular imagination...