Word: spite
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...spite of the fact that the College Endowment Fund drive has not been carried on for two weeks, the half-way mark has not as yet been reached as regards non-dormitory undergraduates. The committee will make increased efforts today to get in touch with the unsubscribed non-dormitory members in every possible way and requests that members of the College who have not subscribed come to the Crimson Building today as early as possible and enroll. If men do not wish to pay cash, they can make a pledge which will not come due for some months...
...total for the whole drive is over $60,000, this small sum of $2896.50 shows that the non-resident undergraduates are far behind. This is due to the fact that the Endowment Committee finds it very difficult to get in touch with men not living in Cambridge. In spite of the fact that many are reached by telephone and promise to come in to the Crimson Building office to subscribe, very few actually appear, which necessitates telephoning again...
Lorimer, the President, escaped to his home town several days previously and then made his way to Boston assisted by a strong-arm squad of freshmen, in spite of 1923 detective work...
...spite of all this, the great mass of laborers are not naturally Bolshevists; the 30,000,000 workers of the civilized world want to be shown the way out. The Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England...
Subscriptions from men who do not reside in dormitories, however, have come in very slowly in spite of the efforts which the College Endowment Fund Committee have made to get in personal touch with these students. Although every means were tried to communicate with these men, final statistics show that in not a single class have these students, not living in dormitories, subscribed more than 28 percent. The percent of these men enrolled in each class was as follows: 1921, 28 percent; 1922, 14 percent; 1923, 21 percent; and 1924, 20 percent. Consequently the committee requests that...