Word: gift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buying of a bond is not a gift; it is not a charity nor an adventure in business. It is a sound way of acquiring good interest on good money under the safest security possible. The nation has been asked to oversubscribe the issue. It cannot fall to do so if it desires to further the cause for which our armies shall fight. The subscription must be undertaken by the whole people. The college man, whatever other service he has undertaken, owes this service no less, to back his nation to the utmost with his resources as he will back...
...will pay the price that Germany may be defeated. It is a gift for the stability of our unsure sister democracy...
...Theatre Collection in the College Library has lately received by gift a collection of 102 original water-color drawings of famous actors and actresses, nearly all full length, mounted in three volumes folio. All but a few of the drawings are by Samuel De Wilde, an English portrait painter...
France has given her truest blood in this, her terrible war. The gift has been made freely and without question of the sacrifice. There has been no miserly doling out of life where the life of the nation, which dominates and includes the life of all individuals, was threatened. In brave fortitude the republic does not look to the past, nor count the tale of its dead...
...Joffre for the orphan children of France should send their contributions to A. Beane '11, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge. It has been considered advisable for the University to give its general contribution to increase the fund which is being raised throughout Greater Boston, rather than to make a separate gift to the French Marshal when he visit the University on Saturday. Those who have charge of the fund hope to raise at least $150,000 as a gift to express the appreciation of the people of Boston and New England for his visit, as well as to express sympathy...