Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many British imperialists are striving to bind together the mother country and the colonies, for the dependence of England upon her colonial trade would make her position precarious if hostility should drive apart the different branches of the Empire. Imperial conferences, reciprocal tariffs, and a myriad of unofficial agencies are at work for the unity of the Empire. And yet an ineluctable current towards separation is rendering dubious the future. England has long since surrendered the right to any but nominal interference with the concerns of the dominions. In conflicts of commercial interests, the home country has ceded instead...
Beginning its final week's drive before the Yale series, the University pinned a 6 to 1 defeat on the Springfield nine on Soldiers Field yesterday. Jumping into the lead in the first inning, the Crimson found the offerings of two visiting pitchers often and hard, ending the bombardment with two home runs in the last half of the eighth...
...miscue of the season, and unfortunately it was one of the kind made imperative by the necessity of scoring it to the only man involved in the play. Berry flied out to Tobin, but Wright lifted a long sacrifice fly to Ellison scoring Crawley. Keene bungled a Di Giovanni drive, but Mahankan was an easy out at first...
With the closing date only two days away, the text book drive, which is being conducted by the Phillips Brooks House Association, is lagging far behind the expected total...
...late hour last night only 600 books had been collected, and a total of only 24 out of the 59 collectors had reported any returns at all. Unless the number of books is doubled by the end of the drive the Text Book Loan Library will again be unable to satisfy the ever increasing demands on its resources. A final automobile collection will be made next Friday, when each of the collectors will be visited, and the books which have been gathered in their rooms taken to Phillips Brooks House. Lawrence Coolidge '27, Librarian of the Association, has requested...