Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessity for contributing to this fund rests on the College in proportion to its means, and on each man in proportion to his individual means...
...well to remember that the world was not lightly spoken which is now rather lightly spoken which is now rather lightly repeated, that the greatest of virtues is charity. That applies not merely to this fund, or to this cause, but to other causes which cry out to us with an unanswerable voice from a devastated world...
...share. There is to be no individual canvass; no strenuous pursuit on the street. We are asked to give what we can at our public library or at any local bank. So it will be an easy thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers a time in which they can better themselves. There are not many of us who are too poor to padlock...
...Probably a dollar has never been as elastic as it will prove in this library war fund," said Harold Braddock, director for the Library War Council. "Not only will each dollar do its full share toward the construction of the library and branch buildings, the installation of tables and chairs in the reading rooms, and the provision of expert librarians, but it also will supply a book, keep that book in circulation until worn out, and then will help furnish a new one to replace the old one. Every dollar in the fund will prove itself 100 per cent. efficient...
...This condition is made possible," he further explained, "by the fact that every dollar of the fund is to be devoted to actual construction of the buildings, to their equipment, and to circulation of the reading matter. Not a cent will be used for any other purpose than for supplying libraries and reading rooms for the soldiers and sailors, at home and abroad, and for the sick and wounded...