Word: canvassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Service Fund is a new experiment in College fund collection. The Student Council has publicized the destination of all undergraduate contributions, and a systematic canvass will henceforth replace the traditional registration shakedown. This challenge to the high pressure collection methods of many charitable organizations promises equally judicious distribution...
...week from today the Harvard Service Fund will open its door-to-door canvass of the College in order to collect the money pledged by undergraduates at registration last month. Although the drive is under the supervision of the Student Council, the Fund Committee has been chosen at large from the student body. An individual contribution of $7 has been asked, and collectors will request that all students who are able meet this donation even if they pledged less before...
Other large charities included under the drive are the Red Cross and the Boston Community Fund, both of which in the past have had to canvass students separately. A charity little known to most undergraduates and which will receive a small allotment from the Fund is the World Student Service Fund...
...churches are about to achieve unity on one subject: money. This fall, for the first time in history, 15 denominations will join in a United Church Canvass to make their annual appeals for money simultaneously. U.C. Canvass will concentrate pledges in two periods, Nov. 15-Dec. 6 and Feb. 21-March...
Ashtrays, old pianos, broken radios, and old clothes are among the items listed by the war Service Committee as Harvard opens its first scrap drive today and Thursday. Entry representatives will canvass every inhabitant of the Houses, Dudley Commuters' Center and Wigglesworth, except Winthrop House, which is holding a mid-week dance tonight. Winthrop will conduct its drive on Thursday and Friday...