Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bond committee is hoping to obtain many small subscribers in Cambridge to swell the total throughout the country. There were 8,000,000 subscribers to the last British loan of $5,000,000,000, or a ratio of one in six, and the British are proud that their record was superior to that of the Germans of whom one in ten subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan...
...their part in maintaining the University's lead in the Preparedness movement. The delay in announcing the course made it impossible for many men who wished to enlist to rearrange their program of students, but in numerous instances they voluntarily took it as an extra course to help swell the enrolment, hoping that the University would be the first to have the training units established. Unfortunately this opportunity is now lost, but in fairness to the members of Military Science and Tactics 1 and to the University at large, every effort should be made by the College authorities to come...
Next week will be Preparedness Week at Harvard. A campaign to swell the number of enrolments for the Plattsburg Camps and the Naval Cruise will be launched at the mass meeting to be held in the Union tonight. Although some interest has been taken in getting men to enroll, there has not been sufficient enthusiasm or system. A university of Harvard's size ought to send a delegation of seven hundred men to the Plattsburg Camps alone. Both those who have already signed up for the Training Camps or Cruise, and those who have thought of enrolling should make...
...last festival and carnival of jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally to the support of the cause; let 1916 gather en masse in the wee small hours of the morning; let 1916, to a man, don the habiliments of the picnicker and swell the throng which will descend upon the land of heretofore unknown and untasted joys...
Though tennis is supposed to have entered this year into an era of importance without precedent in the University, prospects for the doubles tournament do not support this theory. Unless more teams swell the number of entries, now two, a competition which has been closely contested in previous years will become a phenomenal failure this spring...