Word: circular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quickening interest in public debates which has made itself manifest of late throughout the country has suggested the idea of a league between all the college debating societies. This idea bids fair to be realized by a project in which the New Harvard Union is now engaged. A circular has been sent by this society to the debating organizations in Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and other institutions. This circular invites these other debating societies to elect delegates for the purpose of forming a union which then would rapidly be enlarged so as to include more and more...
...wearisome we must add one word more. It is pretty evident that so far as this fund is known it is favored, but we have the feeling that the machinery for making it better known and for collecting the subscriptions is running but imperfectly. To remedy this difficulty, a circular will be issued in a day or two to graduates of the college in the last seven or eight years, inviting them to subscribe, and collectors will be sent around among the students that each man may have an opportunity of subscribing. At the same time a perfectly definite statement...
...subject of this sort is of especial interest. Mr. Closson has gone to great pains to find the real conditions of the unemployed classes in all the great cities in the United States. Most of his information has been obtained from some three hundred replies received to a circular of inquiry sent to public officials and other citizens of all cities in the United States of over twenty thousand inhabitants, as well as of many smaller places. The data thus obtained carry the question down almost to date. The different states are separately considered, and in each case is given...
...quote from the circular of the league: "It is believed that the moment is ripe for the consolidation of public sentiment in favor of good government by the formation of a new and large National League for the complete abolition of the spoils system. It is desired thoroughly to popularize the movement and to make it effective in every part of the United States. Membership in the new league is to be without dues, although voluntary contributions will be welcomed...
...Bolles has just issued his annual circular to seniors and graduate students, asking them to state what work they have done in college, and what business they expect to enter after leaving college. In addition to this, all who have no position in view may, on the same blanks, petition for occupation. Mr. Bolles has issued these circulars for seven years past, and has succeeded in finding employment, especially as teachers, for a great many Harvard graduates. The circulars may be had at any time by applying at the office...