Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term billing system is further objectionable because it allows students to masquerade as philanthropists, while unsuspecting parents pay the bills. This is a good way to satisfy solicitors without giving them cash, to impress them with one's generosity, and to forget the obligation completely. According to the plan which the Combined Charities committee is presently advocating, these careless pledges would be charged on term bills as "Coupon books," used ordinarily to buy extra meals. Certainly, a plan which in the past has foisted student generosity on parents is bad enough, without further disguising donations as midnight snacks...
Though a return to term billing is not advisable, Combined Charities need not despair of future prospects. Longer pledge periods could be offered in a campaign conducted by the Drive itself. For those short of cash, this waiting period would defer payment just as long as term bills, and insure that students will give more thought to their donations. Then the organization will be able to campaign honestly in the spirit of a "charity drive...
Approximately $5,200 has been paid in cash and checks to the Council in the past two weeks. Another $1300 was pledged at registration...
...previous record of $5,907 was achieved in 1952. According to Mack, cash already turned in exceeds the total donations of most years. In 1950, $3,252 was given; in 1951 the Council received $5,059, and last year...
...clerks stationed to guard against the one-way entry being used as an exit. Anyone who slips out faces a policeman alerted by spotters in the Coop's second-story rear windows. While students browse through the open book stacks, a detective scans them carefully until they reach the cash registers, which are also watched by a policeman...