Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most successful solicitor in the drive was O. P. Leland '22, who collected $190. Following him came F. J. Hammond '22, $186.50, W. Whitman, 3rd '22, $158.00, K. R. Groener '22, $148.50 and E. D. Weatherhead '22, $129.40. The team records have not yet been compiled, but will be announced today...
...realize how much depends upon the results of the Endowment Drive. That which is at stake, the standard of education, the necessity of great minds to train undeveloped ones, the interests of the ones who give their careers for our enlightenment, is of deep significance. Upon the graduate rests the fate of that great wish of the University, so well expressed by Mr. Perkins at the recent meeting of the Harvard Clubs: "to go on and do the work for the world which up to this time she has done so well, and do it in larger measure than...
...conservative estimate of the subscriptions to the Phillips Brooks House Association drive places the total slightly over $4,000. Great credit is due for this gratifying result to the canvassers who have worked so strenuously...
Equally to be admired are the fine generosity of his thought and the hardihood with which he exposes his bank account to the zeal of competing "drive" teams. One casual sentence, moreover, discloses an underlying wisdom. "Almost without exception self-made men educate their own children." With only a single step further in the enlightenment of self-interest, we arrive at the conclusion that, as the ultimate beneficiary of advanced education is the community as a whole, the community as a whole should be reckoned the professor's ultimate debtor...
...poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly solvent graduate with a demand for unpaid arrears of tuition, and then proceed to the more abstract obligations of college loyalty, pupilliary gratitude, and enlightened self-interest...