Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...known that a change has been suggested in our club system, and that a canvass is now being carried on to ascertain what probability of success it may have. A full and explicit statement of the matter may not, however, be superfluous...
...house for twenty-five hundred dollars, and this can be paid in two years' time, one instalment of about three fifths of the whole amount, or fifteen hundred dollars, payable on taking possession of the boats and house, and the second instalment at the opening of next spring. A canvass is now being carried on to see if fifty members can be insured to each club, - the annual fee being lowered from fifteen to ten dollars "payable strictly in advance...
...canvass of the Law School gives thirty for Tilden, nineteen for Hayes...
...canvass of the Junior class shows eighty-six votes for Hayes, thirty-one for Tilden, and three for Peter Cooper...