Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seminar developed from a food relief drive in the spring of 1947. Under the leadership of Clemens Heller, an Austrian born graduate student, Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, and Scott B. Elledge, and English instructor, a group of undergraduates developed the idea of school where student's of all nationalities could come together and establish international friendship and understanding. With the sponsorship of the Students Council, they rented an eighteenth century castle, Leopoldskron, outside the Austrian city of Salzburg from the widow of producer Max Rinehardt. They convinced several well-known American teachers of the soundness of their idea, among...
...from diplomatic history in the twentieth century to American music. Harvard will be represented by professors Benjamin F. Wright and Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, and Florence Kluckhohn. The administrative stuff is busy now raising the $60,000 budget. A grant of $15,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation helped the drive considerably, but about half of the total is still to be collected...
...McInnis influence was clearly visible to the naked eye. In the fifth inning, Steve Howe took a line drive in short right field and overthrew first, trying for a double play. In the old style of play, this would have meant at least a two-base advance for the runner. Not so this year, apparently. Catcher Cliff Crosby appeared to catch the throw intact, as it were, and the situation remained under control...
Ninety percent of Leverett House members opened their wallets for the drive, but the $790 sum is $110 short of the $900 goal originally set by Chairman Richard G. Neisser...
...first problem in child behavior to be studied by the Laboratory will be the urge to compete with others. This particular drive was selected, officials announced, because it is one of the strongest in American society and accounts for much of the success and suffering of American people...