Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Maryland team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won 27 consecutive games to a Harvard team that had won nothing anybody could remember for three years, and the ugly word was out that Harvard was going to indulge in underhand player solicitations. Harlow did not proselytize, solicit, or finagle. "I wanted to be associated with a decent institution before I die," he has since said. And the great triumph of his tenure at Harvard--the longest in the college's football history--is that he was able to equate the increasingly lonely standards...
Conforming to urgent requests from the settlement, the HZS will conduct a drive to raise funds, and solicit donations of second-hand books from the College students. Standard texts in bio-chemistry, organic chemistry, and all branches of biology are especially requested...
...University can do to the country by intelligent foresight and readiness to open up new fields of study." The Alumni Bulletin was speaking somewhat before the fact. In 1925, Baker, after having spent more than ten years in an attempt to persuade the University to permit him to solicit funds for a decent theatre, slipped quietly away to Yale, in what Morison calls the greatest victory of Yale over Harvard in the twentieth century. Two years later the word was revealed that one of the Harkness millions had been offered Harvard for the construction of decent theatrical facilities for Baker...
...election on December 15, eight of the nominees will be selected to lay plans for the festivities and to solicit talent which may run anywhere from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo...
Should there be a major depression, even the endowment income will be reduced. In 1929, such a reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...