Word: collection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...duties at the front. During his work with the Ambulance, Lines had many narrow escapes from death and twice underwent operations for injuries contracted from heavy lifting work. Only a few days before his last illness he sent a Christmas greeting to a college friend asking him to collect a fund which would make possible the establishment of a Dartmouth bed for the college ward of the American Ambulance...
...finance committee held its first meeting yesterday and will start its work of canvassing the class for contributions to the class fund today. Each member of the committee has been assigned to collect from 25 members of the class in the various dormitories and from eight who live at home. The reports from the dormitory collections are due next Monday, December 4. It is necessary for everyone to pay promptly and generously, as it is planned to hold a smoker soon and the balance from last year's treasury is extremely small. The members of the committee will compete...
...western history has placed on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library some "New England Materials for the History of the West." This commission was founded in 1912 by a gift from Mrs. William Hooper in memory of her father, Charles Elliott Perkins. Its purpose was to collect materials, books, papers or old documents pertaining to the history of western America. For this purpose, committees have been appointed throughout the country in the larger cities. In this way a large amount of material has been collected. Any graduate or undergraduate who has any documents or papers which he thinks...
Samuel Davies, Hon. P. 1753, from 1759 to 1761. He went to England to collect funds for the founding of the college...
...Mexico, Mr. Whittlesey again assumes that Huerta could have accomplished the impossible, if only he had been recognized, and declares for "legal insistence upon our rights." But as the New Republic of November 4 puts it: "He (Hughes) says he will protect American property abroad. Will he? Will he collect a usurious loan forced on a bankrupt government? If not, why not? If an American bribes a Latin American official and secures title to some enormous concession, will Mr. Hughes regard that as a right forever bound up with the honor of the United States?" What America wants...