Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...described by Roswell H. Johnson, well-known eugenist and professor of oil and gas production in the University of Pittsburgh, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Engineers. The water is let into an old well; it spreads out through the saturated oil sands and shales, driving the oil ahead to other wells. Air and gas have been used for similar purposes. Even after a well has been retapped by this method, oil frequently remains in the finer sands, and may, after 20 years more, distribute itself through the area again. The petroleum resources of Pennsylvania amount...
...Endowment Fund drive which is going on at present, is intended to provide means whereby the School may grow, but the present action is absolutely necessary at this time because the applications for admission have been gradually increasing each year, and 600 represents the maximum number which can be cared for under present conditions...
Regardless of driving rain and a wet and slippery field, Coach Harry Herbert yesterday put his lacrosse squad through a more than usually strenuous two-hour session at Soldiers Field beginning a drive for the team's first severe test of the season, the game on Saturday with a picked aggregation of alumni stars...
...repeatedly declared, and he is now endeavoring to weld together his inexperienced and not too promising material into a team that can give Hobart a hard battle. A game on Saturday with Cornell at Ithaca will conclude the vacation trip. If the Crimson succeeds in showing power and drive against these three opponents, whose teams are made up from stars and players of many years experience in lacrosse, Coach Herbert feels that he will be well on the road to restoring Harvard lacrosse to the standards of former years...
...opening week of College was held the annual financial drive with three district chairmen, G. P., Baker '25, Morrison Mills '25, and W. L. Boyden '25. Under their direction eighty-four canvassers, members of the Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes, did the actual work of collection. As the result of this drive the contributions from undergraduate members of the University amounted to $3,947.60. In addition to this there have been contributions of over $1,000 from members of the Graduate Schools, the Law School, the Dental School, and the Medical School. The total contributions amounted to $4,963.40. Added...