Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Secretary Glass, in his speech in Boston Tuesday evening, pointed out the great advantage of having the Victory Loan subscribed by the people, rather than by the banks. This statement has a direct bearing on the drive at the University, for the number of subscribers to the loan has been woefully small. It is possible in the three remaining days of the drive for nearly every man to buy a bond, and by so doing the total will be much more representative of the University, than the present ratio of subscriptions...
Five defeats out of seven encounters, a certain lack of the essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...present rate of advance 1921 will be over the top Thursday night. The Senior Class quota is now over subscribed $3,550. Though the loan is progressing nearly according to schedule five-sixths of the University undergraduates have failed to co-operate in the drive...
...Martin, who replaced S. Smith at first base, lead the 1922 batters with a single and two doubles in four times at bat. L. A. Hallock with three singles, and F. W. Crocker with two doubles, also helped to drive in the 1922 runs. In the field, the Freshmen played errorless ball...
That only a little over one-half of the quota assigned to the College has so far been subscribed does not augur well for the success of the Victory Loan drive, especially since there remains but one more week. It should be a particular cause for meditation, however, that little over one tenth of the undergraduates have yet bought bonds...