Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although it has seemed best to wait until Monday before reaching a final decision as to the make-up of the University Club committee, the class presidents have determined to begin the canvass for signatures at once...
...unqualified support of society and non-society men alike, who all wish to see a united University. The speaker moved the appointment by the class presidents of a committee of five, to consist of two Seniors, two Juniors and one Sophomore, whose duty it shall be: First, to canvass the University to find how many men would join such a club, and second, to carry before the Graduate Committee, as expressing the sense of Harvard students, the following resolution...
About $200 has already been subscribed mostly by members of the University for the proposed workingmen's reading room on Washington street, Boston. Either this week or next, the committee in charge is to make a canvass of the various buildings. The reading room will probably be opened immediately after the Christmas recess, and the plan now is to have a concert of popular music by the college band on the opening night...
...Student Volunteer Committee will hold its regular fall clothing collection on Tuesday, December 7. On the afternoon and evening of that day collectors will canvass the buildings carefully at stated hours to be announced by circular...
...expression of undergraduate opinion, to which Mr. Wrightington alludes, was made two years ago. Three means were then employed: personal conversation and correspondence with a large number of college men; the assignment of the University Club as a topic for themes in English course, and a blue-book canvass. The result was an overwhelming expression of thoughtful student opinion in favor of the project. Nearly twelve hundred signed the blue-books at once. There was some thoughtful opinion against the plan, based chiefly on the question of practicability, but without ignoring the very small minority, the committee of graduates...