Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CANVASS of the departments at Washington shows that employed therein are sixty-one graduates of Yale, thirty-five of Princeton, thirty of Dartmouth, and twelve of Harvard...
...BOATING-MEETING of the Class of '80 was held on last Tuesday evening, at which a committee of three was appointed to canvass the class for subscriptions, and to take measures for purchasing a boat and oars. The meeting adjourned amid great enthusiasm...
...them well. At any rate the second eight are doing good work, and the only thing to complain of is the small number of men who are actively interested in working for positions on it. We would recommend that some of the officers of the H. U. B. C. canvass the college for heavy and well-built men, and prevail upon them to work for the crew of the future. '79 cannot be with us always...
...this side of the line. It is not a little remarkable to note the rapid strides made by Mr. G. W. Pach since he made a specialty of college work. In 1875 he took the West Point Academy; in 1877, Vassar College. In 1878, Yale College, after an exciting canvass, wheeled into line, but unanimously re-elected him the following year. The same year ('78) Harvard and Columbia chose him enthusiastically, and were immediately followed by Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, and Wesleyan. He has now no less than 120,000 pictures under contract, and, beginning with West Point...
...members of the class apparently resolved to run a partial ticket of their own, and sought, by combinations, to secure its success. If this was so, and there seems to be conclusive evidence that it was, it deserves the severest reprehension. The fact that certain persons attempted, by extensive canvassing, to secure the election of their favorites, might in itself be undeserving of blame; but when the class, through its Committee, had pledged itself to abstain from any action which should mar the desired open election, any canvass or combination was not only a gross violation of this pledge...