Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneous polls are being conducted in more than 70 colleges and universities throughout the country. The returns from these surveys will be likewise published in the CRIMSON and the results of the Harvard canvass distributed to the newspapers of the other institutions conducting the polls. The list of these institutions includes all of the large universities of the East, the State universities of the Middle West and Far West, and a number of smaller colleges of recognized rank in educational circles...
...study of industrial aviation, while a complete list of the correspondents includes Greece, Egypt, India, and Chile. Every noteworthy company engaged in practical transportation by air in the two hemispheres has been reached in the search for operating statistics and organization data. In addition to this thorough canvass of aviation corporations, the Business School has written to the American chambers of Commerce in Athens, Brussels, Tokyo, Lisbon, Calcutta, Rio de Janciro, and every other important city in the world...
...canvass of the leading non-scientific departments of the University indicates the general adoption of the reading periods in all courses except those regularly open to Freshmen or peculiarly unsuited to such a plan. A majority of the departments canvassed have already approved the new plan in its main outline, while leaving the details, and in many cases the final decision as to its adoption to the individual professors and instructors. The remainder of the departments have not yet passed a final vote on the matter...
...Canvass. In all the 120 counties touched by the flood, house-to-house canvasses were made to determine exactly what was needed in con- struction, repairs, furniture, seed, livestock, fowls, clothing. In 111 counties these canvasses were completed. The remaining nine coun- ties had estimated their necessities...
...CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary...