Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack funds. Its present holding, the Park Avenue Baptist Church, is undervalued, considering land values and replacement cost, at $1,750,000 and has several congregations already seeking it. This sum Mr. Rockefeller will duplicate. Additional gifts have been volunteered by others of the congregation, so that no general canvass for funds will be needed or made. If any shortage of funds develops, certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan, for Dr. Christian...
...shall be a candidate for the Democratic nomination to succeed Senator Robinson. Wishing not to press myself on the party, I shall make no canvass for the nomination. If nominated, however, I will give all my strength eagerly in an effort to be elected...
...this opportunity heretofore lacking. It should arrange for informal gatherings under the direction of a competent leader. Students would go to them for no other reason than because they wanted to go, and would spend an hour singing simply for the fun there is in it. A very limited canvass indicates that many students would enjoy spending an occasional hour in this way. Time yet remains to give some such plan a trial before the year ends...
Coincident with the Phillips Brooks House Association's annual dinner comes the announcement that the spring drive for old clothing will begin today under the direction of B. L. Kilgour '27. The collectors who will canvass the dormitories have been notified by mail of their selection. The drive will last until Thursday, when a truck will be sent around to collect the clothes...
...part of its work to date. The goal posts on the Freshman field have been removed because of its former use by the 1928 baseball squad and even if they were put up the amount of space would be too large to make the novel passing game practicable. The canvass targets will be left on their present posts in case any of the men want to play the game before or after practice...