Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...names of nearly 100 members of the University who have been appointed to act as collectors in the Student Friendship drive were announced last night by J. C. McGlone '26, chairman of the drive. A meeting of these men at the Varsity Club this evening at 7 o'clock will formally launch the campaign. The drive will close at room on Saturday...
...explaining the purpose of the drive, the committee has emphasized the fact that the fund collected is not given for "charity" in the ordinary sense of the word. The spirit of the donation is one of cooperative help rather than alms giving. The money is devoted in the greater part to establishing institutions which will, enable the poverty-stricken students to support themselves while they carry on their study...
...Student Friendship drive for funds opens briskly tonight. It has to be brisk, for the four thousand dollar quota must be collected in four days. No introduction is needed: it is a cause particularly appealing to American universities and Harvard has promised to do its share...
...first evidences of the reported drive were the arrests of Philip Smith of Revere, an alleged bootlegger, Philip C. Tobey of Dorchester, his taxi-driver, as they were delivering a consignment of liquor to a club on Friday night. The Federal agents, however, disclaim any part in this arrest, and it was later found that it had been by local agents. Reports that Federal officers were actively engaged Saturday morning at the subway rotunda in opening suspicious suitcases. Commissioner Potters denied last night. "No, we aren't making a special drive to clean up Cambridge," he said...
...king of a prominent ring of bootleggers, in a special statement to the CRIMSON last night, said that while he had no knowledge of any Federal drive on foot, he was greatly concerned about the possibility of such a project. "They would have very little trouble in drying up Cambridge, if they ever took a notion to. Cambridge is a poor field for a bootlegger; students are too indiscreet...