Word: collection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...done, and tries to do it properly, meets anything but encouragement from the unparliamentary fashion in which business is presented. This tendency to let things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons...
...subscriptions have come almost entirely from graduates so far, and the committee now intend to collect subscriptions among undergraduates interested in golf. Those contributing $100 or more will be made honorary life members. Should the fund be insufficient by June 1, the committee will feel obliged to drop the whole matter...
...Senior Committee to make arrangements for the gift which the Senior class will present to the Union has been appointed by E. Lewis as follows: C. S. Sargent, Jr., J. Foster, Jr., R. B. Ogilby, R. J. Bulkley and J. A. L. Blake. This committee will collect subscriptions and decide just what the gift...
...Cambridge Board of Survey has held three public hearings on the petition presented by the University and the University Associates in January asking that a park-way be constructed from Quincy Square to the Charles River. Unless specially requested, the Board will hold no more hearings, but will collect the evidence already presented. The general argument in favor of the plan is that it will make a suitable terminus for the driveway from Boston to Cambridge and a dignified approach to the University. It has been pointed out that the value of property in Cambridge will be so enhanced...
...Senior class last night decided to make an appropriate and useful gift to the Union. It will probably be a large clock for the Living Room. E. Lewis was authorized to appoint a committee of five men to collect funds and purchase the gift...