Word: collect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premature Bonus payment was to become national policy, pondered Senior Gorin, why not pay "veterans" before they were even called to the colors? It would be a particularly happy circumstance for those who would not come back from the war to collect. Into his sardonic scheme he let a club-mate, Thomas Riggs Jr. The pair formed the Veterans of Future Wars, rented office space on Nassau Street, issued their manifesto. By last week the Veterans of Future Wars idea was rampaging over the nation's campuses...
...assigned to do this work. The Committee should either be enlarged to take over the job of advising on a much larger scale, or preferably it should be allowed to resume the work it was originally intended to do, namely to supervise the flexible Quota System and continue to collect the information for the University, which it has done so far in a most efficient and praise-worthy manner...
...every other event the Harvard runners should smass a goodly supply of points. In the dash Green should cop at least a third. In the hurdles the same runner should collect five points, while Schmidt may break through here for third or a fourth...
...them no more attractive than boarding-houses, and equally devoid of friends. Despite heroic efforts, the Committee which governs the placing of Freshmen has found it impossible to dam up entirely a natural and preferable course of events. A few of the Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment...
Probably the basic theory behind the cross-section plan has been the fear that one or two of the Houses will play the role of step-sisters and collect only cast-offs from other Houses. To a degree this may well work out, but it is a greatly exaggerated idea. When mechanical facilities are much on a par as they are at Harvard, new college generations will constantly change the comparative status and general character of the Houses, as experiences at Cambridge, England and at other colleges have shown. The other chief support of the cross-section plan has been...