Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross," said Eliot Wadsworth '98, vice-chairman of the National Red Cross and a member of the University Board of Overseers, when interviewed last night by a CRIMSON representative. "The University mustn't by any chance let another college get ahead of it in the present drive to support the Red Cross, and in supporting that organization in every way and keeping its work going at top pitch...
Probability and grave danger of another German peace drive were emphasized by President Lowell yesterday in his address at the opening session of the Convention of the League to Enforce Peace, in Philadelphia...
...campaign here will be conducted by teams which will canvass the College. No quota has been assigned for the University nor for any of the classes. Cash payments alone will be taken; no pledges will be considered. Liberty Bonds will be accepted in payment of subscriptions. The drive will be carried on under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House and will be directed by G. C. Barclay...
Scarcely has the Liberty Loan been subscribed but we are called upon again to give our money. The cause is no less just, no less necessary. The money spent in bonds goes to create great engines of destruction that shall shake the enemy and drive him back from the country he has ravaged; the money given to the Red Cross maintains a great organization that alleviates the suffering of our own soldiers and of the unfortunate civilians in this war zone...
...work of immeasurable value, and it will fail unless the whole nation co-operates in the one end of maintaining it. To do so really successfully the week of May 20-27 should see a response at least equal to the one hundred million dollar totals of the last drive...