Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...department has more than doubled the number of two years ago. In the Divinity School the gain is not quite so marked but there is a slight increase over former years. A movement is now on foot to establish a Musical Department here. A committee has been appointed to solicit the necessary funds and the prospects are good that the plan will be carried...
...manner funds for the proposed German library in Sever hall were to be raised. Mr. Hunneman, '89, called the meeting to order, and it was moved and seconded that Dr. Francke should appoint a committee, numbering from 18 to 24, and that this committee should canvass the college dormitories, solicit by mail subscriptions from men living outside of the yard, and hand around in the German classes, printed blanks for subscriptions...
...Perkins, '92, second for the negative, said that owing to the excellent results of unrestricted immigration, it would be a poor policy to put immigration under restriction. Moreover, it would be far more advisable to send agents to Europe to solicit immigration, so as to enable this country to compete with South American states in their inducements to immigrants. The question arises; How can the natural resources, great as they are, be employed, if we restrict a steady flow of men from Europe, who have done so much towards discovering these resources...
...wish, even at the expense of repetition, to call the attention of college men once more to the pecuniary outlook for the crew. The men who have volunteered to go around and solicit aid for the crew, have, in many cases, experienced difficulty in obtaining funds even from men well able to give. We can account for this indifference only in one way. Apparently the fact that Yale will send a veteran crew to New London this year, and that our own prospects are not of the brightest nature have influenced men to avoid as much as possible the very...
...leave to inform the students of Harvard College that I have recently thought the picture-framing establishment No. 363 Washington street, Boston, and respectfully solicit their patronage. X. Teillard...