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Social Service workers from Phillips Brooks House will canvass in House dining halls and knock at doors for the rest of this week in a drive to sign up more men for work at 48 social agencies in the Boston area...
...most who have heard a sample transcript are now enthusiastic. Other Episcopalians will make up their minds during the first 13 weeks of the series, for which the money is on hand. If the show is to be continued, an extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars have volunteered for a fraction of their usual fees...
Probably the chief reason for this is the increased difficulty among the Faculty and Graduate School of conducting a person-to-person canvass. Six thousand letters have been sent out to faculty members and nonresident graduate students, but something about it makes an impersonal letter far too easy to slip quietly into the nearest wastebasket. Admittedly some of these letters went out late, and admittedly graduate students are on the average poorer per capita than undergraduates. But for the full professors and associate professors, who can certainly afford a reasonable contribution, any excuse is indeed small. The drive includes...
...even a well-thumbed Hymarx will be spurned by Radcliffe collectors who will canvass the Annex this week in an N.S.A. sponsored drive for textbooks to restock the empty library shelves of Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...committee of 20 which will canvass every Lowell entry in an effort to reach a goal of "a book from each man," the drive spearheads next week's text and clothing collection for the Salzburg Seminar and Western European Universities...