Word: collections
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Social Service Committee has decided to try a new plan for its regular May clothing collection. Previously, the collection has been made only on one fixed day. As a result, not more than half the men in the University have been seen, and been given the chance to contribute. This spring the collection will be extended over a whole week--May 2 to 3--and will be made by men living in the buildings in which they collect. In this way it will be possible to see everybody and so to make a much larger collection...
From 2 to 3 P. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M., today, men will call at all rooms, both in dormitories and in houses, to collect clothes, magazines, and books, to be distributed by the Social Service Committee among the poor of Boston and vicinity, and at Tuskegee Institute. Any clothing, underwear, shoes, hats, etc., will be acceptable. Men who are to be away may leave their contributions outside their doors...
Tomorrow from 2 to 3 P. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M., men will call at all rooms, both in dormitories and in houses, to collect clothes, magazines, and books, to be distributed by the Social Service Committee, among the poor of Boston and vicinity, and at Tuskegee Institute. Any clothing, underwear, shoes, hats, etc., will be acceptable. Men who are to be away may leave their contributions outside their doors...
...Friday, from 2 to 3 P. M. and from 7 to 8 P. M., men will call at all rooms, both in dormitories and in houses, to collect clothes, magazines, and books, to be distributed by the Social Service Committee among the poor of Boston and vicinity, and at Tuskegee Institute. Any clothing, underwear, shoes, hats, etc., will be acceptable. Men who are to be away may leave their contributions outside their doors...
...Social Service Committee will take up its Thanksgiving collection of clothing on Friday, November 13, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening. At those hours men will call at the rooms in all the dormitories and collect any clothing, hats, gloves, shoes, and books and magazines which may be left. Such clothing and books will be sent to Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes, or will be distributed through the various charitable agencies of Cambridge and Boston...