Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...movement is on foot among the alumni to increase the general fund of the University and to further that end a committee has been appointed to solicit contributions. It is thought that about $100,000 may be raised in this...
...committee believing that the gifts should be as representative as possible of the real feeling of the students, have decided to solicit subscriptions for no amount exceeding one dollar. Larger amounts will be very gratefully received, however, and the committe hope that all who can do so will subscribe more. Those who feel no interest whatever in the project for the excavation of Delphi, or in the question whether or not Harvard shall be represented in the matter are not asked to give; for the originators of the movement are anxious that it should be purely spontaneous and not forced...