Word: canvasses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result of the canvass undertaken by the Harvard Union has been published and the subject of the torchlight procession has been decided. The old custom of marching in the ranks of the Republicans will be followed for another year. The vote was very close for presidential preference, Blaine receiving a plurality of only twenty-one, but for choice of processions the college seemed to be largely in favor of the Republican one. We do not see the necessity of holding a mass meeting as the question is practically decided. The Independents and Democrats had better hold a meeting and adopt...
...task of canvassing the college has been no easy one, but has been carried on rapidly and successfully. For this work the college is once more indebted to the Harvard Union, which has always shown energy and dispatch in taking up such investigations. This fall, no doubt the Union will afford us a few opportunities of listening to the political orators of Harvard College. It would be interesting to compare the result of the canvass just completed, with a vote in the Harvard Union after an exhaustive discussion of the relative merits of the two candidates for the Presidency...
...favorite at Harvard College by a small plurality, and therefore the choice of the students. The republican procession seems to be more popular still, as many Cleveland men prefer it to the democratic procession. If we may draw conclusions from a comparison of this vote with the canvass of last spring for candidates for the presidency, there is a manifest falling off in the Republican party. Last spring 878 students were in favor of republican and 153 of democratic candidates. This fall there is a gain of about 300 for the democratic, and the same loss for the republican candidates...
...informal vote was taken which resulted as follows: Cleveland, 67; Blaine, 56. A number of motions were made and lost, but finally it was decided to march in the procession for those candidates for whom the majority of the college is in favor, as shown by the Harvard Union canvass. The result of this canvass will be published by Saturday morning, if not sooner. When this vote was passed, the meeting proceeded to elect officers for the procession as follows: Chief marshal for the whole procession, J. J. Storrow; drum major for the whole procession, S. E. Winslow; first marshal...
...leading motive of the Union in undertaking a canvass was to place on record the standing of the students on this great political question of the day. A secondary motive was to ascertain which party torchlight procession, the majority of the students favored...