Word: canvassing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Each captain shall make a canvass of every man in his class at the beginning of the term and get out all good material...
Permit me to make, in your paper, a brief statement of the result of the canvass to raise funds for the German library. In spite of the unseasonable time of the year, and of other grave hindrances, the members of the working committee have been able to collect about two hundred dollars, and more is promised. In view of material increase to the fund started by Mr. Henry Villard, work has already been begun in Sever 2, and by the fall, a comfortable library will be ready for the students of German literature. Two hundred volumes have been purchased...
...decide in what manner funds for the proposed German library in Sever hall were to be raised. Mr. Hunneman, '89, called the meeting to order, and it was moved and seconded that Dr. Francke should appoint a committee, numbering from 18 to 24, and that this committee should canvass the college dormitories, solicit by mail subscriptions from men living outside of the yard, and hand around in the German classes, printed blanks for subscriptions...
...uniform of the Yale foot-ball team consists of a dark blue jersey with a white Y woven on the breast, a heavy sweater, moleskin trousers, dark blue stockings, canvass jacket and blue jersey...
Owing to the want of a large meeting room in the Johns Hopkins University, no canvass for the coming election has been held; the political sentiment, as far as it is known, is strongly democratic...