Word: collective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Complete sets of text books used in all the important college courses are needed for next year by the text-book loan library of Phillips Brooks House, if the library is to be kept up-to-date. To do this it will be necessary to collect over a thousand books this spring. Although there will probably be no regular book collection for the remainder of this year, it is desired that all men who have volumes which they will no longer need leave them at the Phillips Brooks House or else send a postal card stating that they have some...
...from the class of 1919 in the day's scoring, are now within $2,100 of realizing their quota, which is over one-third of that of the College. Their total subscription yesterday was $5,050. Both of the other two classes still have several thousand dollars to collect before fulfilling their obligations...
...tell you to buy bonds? Because the country must obtain the money in order to carry on the war. The bonds are issued faster than the savings of the nation are accumulated, and that means that we must collect all the funds possible in the form of bonds in order that we may not have to extend our credit further than is absolutely necessary...
...under the name of Comite Nationale d'Etudes and composed of M. Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving...
...meet these needs a nation-wide book-drive will start on March 18, directed by the American Library War Service, and with every public library cooperating: Churches, schools and patriotic societies of all kinds have signified their willingness to help. Thousands of girls and boys are being mobilized to collect books from householders who are too busy to take them to public libraries, and every other means will be used to make the giving of books easy. Two million books is the goal set, but with public interest really aroused, it should be far exceeded.--A. L. A. WAR SERVICE...