Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second day in the Phillips Brooks House financial campaign, $772.93 has been turned in, team 2 leading with a total of $312.43. This is a marked improvement over yesterday's collection but the campaign still lacks a great deal of having the success that last year's drive attained. Only two more days of the canvass are left and as the three teams cannot reach all students in the University, those who are not solicited may leave their contributions at the CRIMSON Building...
...ordination of the two, there is always honor waiting. To the athlete the "H" is the highest gift within the power of the University; to the scholar it is the Phi Beta Kappa key. The values of the two are not comparable for they represent the final success in very different lines of achievement...
...Boston theatres they set out resolutely for Widener, there to make themselves still more invulnerable against the inevitable examinations. No cheering crowds of the athletic field have urged them onward, just the pleasure of acquiring knowledge has been their incentive through the long period of rigorous application. Accumulative success has brought them the final honor, an honor to themselves and to the University whose opportunities have served them so well...
...canvassers and canvassed. The former are going about their collections in a desultory and half-hearted manner which is largely responsible for the lack of contributions. On the other side the students, especially the numerically large lower classes, are displaying a financially elusive tendency which bodes ill for final success. If the Association is to obtain the money it must have to continue its important work, a general awakening to the situation must occur. It is unthinkable that the drive should fail, hence, it is up to each one to contribute substantially and at once...
...Team 2, $90; Team 3, $54; making a total of $203. This is considered a fair start inasmuch as last night's collections could not be included in the report. It is expected, however, that far greater daily totals will be forthcoming to make the drive a success...