Word: loans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bulk of the members of each class are able to make, there have been shamefully few. The canvassers can still make up this deficiency. There are two full days left in which the many men who have so far "passed by on the other side" may make Harvard's Loan victory a victory of the whole College...
...Victory Liberty Loan Campaign in the College has gone "over the top". Gratifying as the word's sound, every sane undergraduate knew all along that sooner or later in the campaign they would be safely translated into fact. The chief question has been from the first not one of victory or defeat, but of the extent and character of the victory...
Yesterday's subscriptions, totaling $35,100, sent the University "over the top" with a grand total of $108,500 subscribed in the Loan Campaign. Every class but 1922, which still lacks $9,400, has now exceeded its quota. This amount must be raised in the two remaining days of the Loan, or that class will close the campaign with a deficit. Last year, the Freshmen subscribed nearly one-half of the amount raised...
Secretary Glass, in his speech in Boston Tuesday evening, pointed out the great advantage of having the Victory Loan subscribed by the people, rather than by the banks. This statement has a direct bearing on the drive at the University, for the number of subscribers to the loan has been woefully small. It is possible in the three remaining days of the drive for nearly every man to buy a bond, and by so doing the total will be much more representative of the University, than the present ratio of subscriptions...
...this obligation will be performed, and in such circumstances the University will be in a position to oversubscribe the quota. Let every one audit for a final time his account books and discover some means for producing five dollars for one more bond. Finish strong, and put the loan over the top with a large number of subscriptions...