Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the close of the recent examination does not differ in the least from similar occasions in the past and that the spirit of which we speak is as prevalent as usual. Such being the case, the managers of the various college organizations whose pleasant duty it is to solicit subscriptions for the interests they represent, can choose no better time than the present to make their annual visits to their supporters. To aid them in their duties we feel sure is the earnest desire of every student of the university. As their labors are at best very oppressive nothing...
...committee appointed at the annual meeting of the Trinity College Alumni Association last June to solicit from the alumni and friends of the college such aid in the way of money as the instant needs of the college demand, have sent out a circular. This circular states that the total income of the college last year was $31,500 and the expenditures $31,325. These expenditures fall short of those estimated for this year by $5000. The circular states that the sum of $50,000 is required for special purposes, such as $17,000 for a becoming home...
...born and reared in the South. Believing the Southern to be the highest type of civilization this continent has seen, the young ladies are trained according to the Southern ideas of delicacy, refinement, womanhood, religion and propriety; hence we offer a first-class female college for the South, and solicit Southern patronage...
...Decrow, Yale, '80, reports that he has concluded his trip to solicit funds for Yale's new athletic grounds, and has secured subscriptions of between $20,000 and $25,000. The grounds will be formally opened next season with a grand stand accommodating 2000 spectators and the most complete equipment of any athletic ground in the country...
...showy buildings, and to neglect far too much all effort towards perfecting her corps of instructors and her courses of instruction. In consequence of these remonstrances, we believe, the authorities of that institution have abated to a considerable extent their efforts to secure more buildings, and now chiefly solicit professional endowments and similar aids. During the past twenty years Harvard has more than doubled the number of her buildings, chiefly, no doubt, to keep pace with the growth in the number of her students and of her courses of instruction, and to afford adequate accommodations to these. It would clearly...