Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips Brooks House Association will open its intensive financial campaign for $5,000 with a dinner in the Trophy Room of the Union at 6.45. At this time all team captains and their men will get together for final instructions before starting out on the actual work of the drive tomorrow. Complete plans will be announced at the dinner, and the teams will be definitely formed under the three captains--A. W. Douglass '21, A. Houghton '21, and L. B. Stoddart '21. Each team's territory will also be assigned and receipt blanks issued to each collector...
...actual drive which will be under the direction of P. Hofer '21, will start tomorrow morning and will last four days, ending October 4. The success of this campaign is most important as all the activities of Phillips Brooks House depend entirely upon the voluntary annual contributions of the graduates and under graduates of the University...
This work, which includes not only the activities within the University, but also all social service work such as enlisting volunteers, boys' clubs, teaching immigrants, clothes collections for the poor, and allied activities, is also dependent upon the drive and suffers if sufficient funds are not raised...
...importance of the five thousand dollar drive between now and Saturday is perhaps best shown by the statement of the Brooks House management itself: "We depend mainly upon contributions from friends of Phillips Brooks House who wish in this way to show their appreciation of the work carried on by the Association...
Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 has been chosen to head the committee of the Faculay which will welcome to the University the members of the sub-committees which are in charge of the drive for the University's endowment fund. The welcoming committee which will consist of Dean Briggs, Assistant Dean K. B. Murdock '16, Professor H. J. Hughes '94, Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Engineering School, Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, and Richard Ames '07, Secretary of the Law School, will meet the sub-committees at University Hall this morning and conduct them in parties through...