Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Thompson's second item was a broadside against the U. S. Department of Justice. He linked the Sacco and Vanzetti case with the 1920 anti-Red drive of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, produced ex-Government agents who swore that conviction for murder was simply "one way of disposing of them," that there were files of evidence which the Department of Justice refused to reveal. Lawyer Thompson burst ihto flames...
...Year's Only Financial Drive...
Among the projects for which there is a demand, but neither money on hand nor a drive, the two most important are probably the swimming pool and the new gymnasium. Both occupy prominent positions in Athletic Director Bingham's program, and only await the necessary cash. Some of this at least will be realized this fall from the sale of football tickets that have been raised in price with the express purpose of supplying money for the University's "athletics for all" policy
...resolution passed by the Student Council last spring to the effect that the numerous collections for money during the college year would be eliminated and replaced by a single intensive drive for a Student Council Budget at the beginning of each college year will become an actuality today. In the registration envelopes at Hemenway Gymnasium will be found. Budget Pledge cards which every student will be expected to fill out and hand in at the designated tables on leaving the registration buildings...
...reasons for the inauguration of the Budget are explained in an extract from a report submitted to the Student Council by J. F. Barnes '27 last spring. "Hitherto," the report says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...