Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pledges from 100 per cent of the student body for War Bonds and Stamps is the object of the intensive one-week drive opening today, the first all-out effort to bring the College into step with the rest of the country in financing the war. Sponsored by the War Service Committee, the drive will reach every undergraduate and resident instructor in the seven Houses and Dudley...
According to Richard N. Swift '44, in charge of sales of War Bonds and Stamps, pledges for weekly contributions during the students' stay at Harvard will be distributed in the House dining halls at lunch and dinner today. The object of the drive is to obtain complete and consistent participation regardless of the size of the purchase...
...Hitting the Harvard man" is especially important, for the greater share of undergraduate allowances is spent on scarce luxury articles. The spiral is given an extra twist every time a student buys records, gasoline, liquors, or similar goods. But all spending, whatever its object, is ultimately inflationary as soon as it gets to other consumers who use it for shortage commodities. This surplus purchasing power floating around the national economy must be sopped up by the sponge of war stamps and bonds...
...Today the struggle of man's spirit is against new and curious shackles...a seven days' wonder, a new child of tyranny-a political religion in which the leader of the state becomes, himself, an object of worship and reverence. This Nazi freak must fail, if only because men are not clods, because the spirit does live...
...lost no time in banding themselves into the "Radcliffe Purity League" and attempting to sabotage the love life of their more fortunate and more beautiful sisters of the "dirty thirty." The purity leaguers were the object of the withering scorn of the 30 who lampooned and lambasted them in verse and song. Under the leadership of a glamorous inner circle, euphoniously known as "the filthy few," they advertised the causes of the puritanical attitude in parodies like the following, which was sung to the tune of "Caesar Was a Roman...