Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...results of the Harvard United War Work Campaign conducted under the auspices of the Brooks House Association were most satisfactory, for counting the subscriptions made by members of the Faculty, a total of just under $40,000 was collected. The Red Cross Membership Campaign, conducted by T. R. Thayer '21, during the last week before vacation, enrolled 400 as members...
With the opening of College after the Christmas recess the work of the War Cabinet was taken and continued by the Executive Cabinet with the vice-president acting as president in the absence of R. Emmet '19. The first work of the Cabinet was to conduct a brief financial campaign in the University and Graduate Schools. The amount collected in this, together with that of the smaller campaign held last autumn, was $4,690, a total greater than even last year's subscription of $4,346.44. Such results are very gratifying, but one cannot help feeling that, if the number...
...much credit cannot be given to the Graduate Secretary, H. Thurston '16, who, as author of every new plan, has been solely responsible for the success of the Association's efforts; to W. Tibbetts '17, for his valuable work as Associate Graduate Secretary; to the members of the War Cabinet, whose time and energy enabled Brooks House to carry on its good work in a most difficult period; and to my own associates of the Executive Cabinet for their faithful co-operation and interest in the year's success. In commenting upon the situation, I can make but one suggestion...
...activities of the Harvard University Christian Association during this most unusual of College years, in which we have changed from a war to a post-war basis, might be plotted mathematically by a curve which begins below the line, but gradually reaches a considerable height above it; and the same I believe, is true of most other College activities...
...Although war conditions have handicapped the present cabinet more than any previous cabinet, and although it has been working together for only two months and a half, that is, since the middle of January, nevertheless, I feel that it has done remarkably well, owing to the enthusiastic, efficient, and conscientious way in which the committees have gone about the solution of various problems...