Word: collect
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...steps. Members of the University who wish to sign for places in the new dining hall can find blanks at the Office, at Memorial, the Foxcroft Club, the Cooperative, the Library and at the Law School, as well as in the hands of the students who are authorized to collect signatures in the domitories...
Twelve committees have been appointed at the University of Pennsylvania to collect from the students $5,000 needed to defray the expenses of the crew...
...meeting of freshman collectors for the Soldiers' Field fund was held on Tuesday in the room of J, C. Fairchild, chairman of the committee from ninety-six. It was arranged to collect within one month at least $850. The collectors have been assigned systematically to buildings and will begin work at once...
...mass meeting last evening was called to order by B. W. Trafford, as President of the Senior Class. Mr. H. H. White was introduced and explained that the graduate committee in charge of the improvement of Soldier's Field have already collected about $47,000 from graduates, and that they have applied to the undergraduates to raise $3000, not wishing to begin work on the field until they have $50,000 in their hands. He also recommended that the sum be collected by committees elected from the four classes. A nominating committee consisting of Vail, Frothingham, Thompson, and Waters, captains...
...proposed measure would amount to practical prohibition: No. Am. R. vol. 152, p. 27 (Jan. '91); Pub. Op. xiv. 298 (Dec. 31. '92). - (a) Total prohibition would be impossible: Pol. Sci. Q. iii. 420; Pub. Op. iii. 250. - (b) Impossible to collect the tax: Forum, xiii, 366 (May, '92) - (c) It would debar families from immigrating. - (d) Immigration is self regulating: Forum. xiv. 606; No, Am. R. Ixxxii. 251, 259; Ap. Am. Cyc. vi. 578-579; No. Am. vol. 134. p. 348: Pol. Sci. Q. iii. 50; (e) Opposition to immigration comes largely from foreigners themselves; (f) Prohibition would...