Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last meeting of this committee it was agreed that the financial outlook is at present not propitious for a general canvass to obtain the $200,000 which will be needed; but is was felt that every member of the committee should be urged either personally or through friends to bring the project to the attention of persons who might be induced to contribute. Especially is to be remembered that, excepting Memorial Hall, all of the buildings erected at Harvard in our time have been given or bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either...
...held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the City of Cambridge and we feel that the abandonment of the scheme would be a thing to be deplored. The interest among the undergraduates will surely increase as the event draws nearer, and cannot be fairly estimated by the canvass that has just been taken...
...have not had a chance to vote in the canvass of the University may do so by signing their full names in the blue-books which have been placed at Leavitt's, Sanborn's and at Memorial Hall...
...undergraduates, it would do more than anything else could to establish sympathetic relations between the students and officers of instruction and government in the University. Such a committee would be of service for example in the discussion of the proctor system in examinations and kindred subjects, where now a canvass of individual student opinion is necessary...
...spur of the moment without thought, for such contributions will not be of much value. Several positions have already been suggested by the graduates as good sites for the club, but they have not proved thoroughly satisfactory, and nothing definite will be decided until a more thorough canvass of opinion has been made...