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...efforts toward extension and improvement. At every turn his requests have been denied and his work hampered by an utterly inexplicable passive resistance on the part of the governing powers of the University. He has asked for official cooperation and has been refused. He has attempted to solicit funds and has been expressly forbidden to do so. Why he continues his apparently undesired labors can be explained on no other ground than that of a wish to be of service to his college--an attitude worthy of a better return than has so far been...
Since there are a great many men not living in the dormitories, strenuous efforts will be required by candidates to solicit personally from every member in class if the $5000 required is to be subscribed before April 10. This drive for solicitation of subscriptions from men living outside the dormitories will be carried on vigorously during the next few days...
...cruiser Cincinnati, Captain C. P. Nelson commanding, was in port. General Estrada asked Captain Nelson to land marines to keep order. Captain Nelson wired President Obregon saying he was about to give the desired assistance. Obregon's Secretary of War wired back: "No official is authorized to solicit aid of foreign troops whatever may be the conditions at the port of Acapulco. Such request constitutes . . . treason...
...business and news competitions are open to Freshmen only and offer members of the first-year class their first opportunity to make the CRIMSON board. Business candidates are required to solicit advertisements and do routine office work. They learn the details of the advertising business and make the acquaintance of prominent business men in Boston and elsewhere. News candidates act as reporters--the men who gather and write the news for each issue. Through interviews they often meet men and women of national prominence, and in the course of their regular duties they broaden their acquaintance with undergraduate leaders...
...committees which will solicit the faculty and graduate schools for subscriptions to the Student Friendship Fund in the drive for $5000 beginning Monday were named last night by F.T. Baldwin '24, chairman of the drive. A committee of five will be in charge of the solicitation of the faculty, while there will be one man at the head of the drive in each graduate school. For the most part, the method of collection will be by letter...