Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...funds are to go to the local charities, which will be carried on as usual, in spite of the decrease in the University. The Phillips Brooks House also keeps up a Text Book loan library which has proven so valuable in past years. An information bureau for new students, and the Harvard Handbook are financed from the fund, as well as certain religious meetings which the Phillips Brooks House holds every year. Entertainments are held in the poorer districts of Boston and boys clubs are promoted. Teaching staffs are maintained at the Prospect Union, and at the Cambridge branch...
...work of the canvassing teams to raise a fund of $5000 to carry on the work of the Philips Brooks House is well under way. Members of the teams are endeavoring to come in touch with every member of College. In the two days in which the campaign has been going on, almost $1500 has been subscribed. Six contributions of $100 each have been received. The work of the committees will continue throughout the coming week and announcements of the collections made by the teams will appear from day to day in the CRINMSON...
...fervently hoped that since this is the last day iof Camp Library Week, giving toward that fund will not have ceased among the members of the University. The latest reports issued from campaign headquarters indicated that the sum desired was still far from being in the Library War Council's hands. We are not greatly agitated over this announcement, for it is quite an American characteristic to put off giving until the last minute--not so much that there may be a possible chance of escape from the demand, but rather because the American loves a whirl-wind finish...
...House and Senate committees on the war tax bill practically assures the passage of that measure, which will bring into government coffers $2,700,000,000 when its various provisions come into effect. Just as the undergraduate has subscribed to the Liberty Loan and contributed to the Red Cross Fund, so now will be perform his share of raising this enormous sum with which at least a good start is going to be made against Germany. But whereas in the two former cases he contributed willingly and openly, this time he is to do his part from necessity, his choice...
During this week gifts are being made all-over the country toward a million fund which is to insure the provision of well equipped libraries in all the cantonments and training camps in this country, and the furnishing of books to American troops in the field and to the sick and wounded in hospitals...