Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey, which comes from a firm of professional drive managers, concludes thus: "We are impressed pretty, strongly with the fact that these charts show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation...
...recent development in higher education has been so characteristic of modern America as the college "drive" for endowment. It began as a means of relieving the hard necessities of professors. Presently a new need developed. In consequence of the wider diffusion of prosperity the number of students doubled and redoubled; there was insistent need of more professors, more material equipment. Institutions already struggling desperately to maintain themselves were in danger of being submerged. One after another they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts...
...appreciation of learning so widespread either in the ambition to partake of it or in the generous will to provide it for others. It was doubtless in the light of this truth that New York University, with a present endowment of only $3,720,000, of late launched a drive for $73,000,000 over five times the sum achieved by Harvard. Yet it is impossible to ignore the comparatively unimpressive showing made by college graduates, which is quite of a piece with the declining number of marriages and of children. Not so much the will as the means...
...Treasury able to do so? It was explained that a drive by the Internal Revenue Bureau had brought in an unexpected $100,000,000 of back taxes, that customs receipts were $20,000,000 ahead of expectations and that income taxes were expected to furnish $80,000,000 more than was anticipated earlier in the year?in all receipts were increased...
Roaring like a fire demon, the car devoured 250 miles almost without slackening. From Rome it fled across Umbria and Tuscany into the hills of Forli. A quirk of the thumb and Mussolini cut the ignition. An easy swing of the wheel and he coasted silently up the drive of a country villa at Carpena. Dazed, the Premier's chauffeur looked about him, rubbed caked dust from smarting eyes...