Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today the Victory Liberty Loan drive is one-half over, but only one-third of the College quota has been subscribed. During the ten working days which remain, $5,830 a day must be raised. The canvassers will have to double their efforts to secure this amount. As yet, the majority of the members of the canvassing committee are not reporting regularly...
...weekly quota of $30,000 has been announced by the University Victory Liberty Loan Committee for the remainder of the campaign. As the drive is to last two more weeks, this will treble the amount originally announced as the college quota. During the past week, only $25,150 was subscribed by the college, but the purchasers from the University at large put the grand total at $32,450. However, only the subscriptions from undergraduates are to be counted towards the quota...
...hardly seems that the problem can be solved in such a simple manner. The undergraduate is a stubborn brute--with a little clever manipulation you can lead him anywhere you will but it is an almost impossible task to drive him with a whip. And this it seems to me, is what they are attempting at New Haven. There is but one way to make the undergraduate pay more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave...
...Junior Class was second with $900, the Freshman Class third with $300, and the Seniors last, with only $150 subscribed. The College total for the day was $13,000, which, added to the previous collection, brings the total to $18,600,--over one-half of the quota for the drive. Two hundred and fifty dollars was raised yesterday from the University at large...
...Canvassing Committee has secured a German helmet, which will be given, at the end of the drive, to the member of the University who sells the greatest number of bonds during the campaign...