Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phillips Brooks House will solicit pledges for donations in graduate dormitories on a room-to-room basis for the first time in its spring blood drive, which will begin today and continue through Friday...
...will also solicit from Radcliffe and undergraduate dormitories as it has done in the past. Radcliffe girls will seek donations at Harkness Commons, the Union, and a booth in front of the Coop...
...because for nine years, contrary to a State law, they had been working at two cents under the 35 cent hourly wage minimum. The following spring, however, a champion enlisted their cause. He was Corliss Lamont '24. At the head of an indignant alumni group he offered personally to solicit from other alumni the scrubwomen's back pay," amounting to $280 each, if the University did not reimburse hem, which it promptly did. This militant defense of the underdog is characteristic of Lamont. From the moment he found himself in a position of power, as the son of Thomas...
...original limitation was made in order to direct student donations to "smaller drives which are perhaps more of service or interest to students rather than to the larger well-known charities which have funds to solicit independently," he said...
Eight of the 12 undergraduates on the committee are form the Houses, two are from Radcliffe, and two represent the Yard. Each of the House representatives will command his own staff of regular entry collectors, who will solicit for every drive...