Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mayor accepted the honorary presidency of the International Shakespeare Association. Inc., and allowed his name to be used in a drive for funds. Disillusionment came when he found that protectorate was not the fund which is being collected for a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, already supplied with an honorary president in Elihu Root, but rather the brain-child of Dr. W. E. Dentinger, osteopath and musico-therapeutist, who is planning a Broadway Shakespeare shrine. Mayor Walker instantly withdrew his name...
...funds with which to build a new gymnasium, complete with swimming pool. One of these has made his very generous gift conditional upon the raising of the complete amount needed; the other has contributed his no less generous if smaller donation in cash. The two combined give the drive for funds a sound start and further progress will no doubt be made at an accelerated speed as the goal is approached...
Another source of trouble is supplied by the many "Drive-It-Yourself" concerns which have invaded the Square. They invariably send many hounded students to the sheltering legal wings of the Board. One Harvard student from Switzerland, having rented a "U-Drive-It" vehicle and meandered over to Boston in it, finally parked beside the Statler and left his coat and hat in the car. When he returned he found his habiliments missing, but being unperturbed drove back to Cambridge. As he climbed out of the car he was arrested and charged with having stolen it. Dumb-founded over...
...York City subscribed more than half the fund-$12,070,783; Chicago came next with $1,416,976; New Haven third with $766,970. Yale students subscribed $260,142; Alumnus William Howard Taft, $10,000. The drive drew donors from classes ranging over nearly a century, from 1853 to a twelve-year-old who aspires to join the class of 1938; included graduates of Harvard, Princeton, Colgate...
Gifts of the largest ten subscribers totaled $6,450,000. Chief among them was Edward Stephen Harkness (1897), who supplemented his fat subscription with a special gift of cover charges for the whole campaign cost. But for him, said President Angell, the drive would have failed its schedule dates...