Word: canvass
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...past members of the University are eligible to active membership in the Union. The effect of this in changing the following sections of Article VII was passed over for a discussion of the question of dues. F. S. Arnold 2G., presented some interesting statistics, the result of a canvass made in several dormitories with a view to discovering the feelings of students in regard to the ten dollar dues. He explained that about twenty-five per cent more men would join under the five dollar dues than under the ten dollar dues. This he said was not accurately representative...
...however realized the importance of this plan for bringing unity into social life at Harvard, and they organized a committee of graduates to provide if possible for a building for the University Club. Interest in their project reached its height in 1895 and plans were made for a general canvass to raise $200,000 from Harvard men. But owing to the financial crisis of 1896, the committee reluctantly gave up their plan, appealing to individual graduates to give the necessary funds. In 1898 it was suggested that the University Club should be given as a memorial to the Harvard...
...small portion of the subscriptions for the old bell was paid on Saturday. 845.00, however, remains to be raised. Unless this amount is brought in at once, the CRIMSON will be obliged to collect the money by individual canvass. The books will be ready all day today, at the CRIMSON office, where subscriptions will be received...
Subscriptions to the amount of $96.90 have been received for the purchase of the old bell, and of this only $51.10 has been paid. It is absolutely necessary that the whole $100 be raised before the examination period begins. A personal canvass of the men who have pledged themselves will have to be made unless the money is paid at once. To obviate such a canvass the subscriptions books will be ready at the CRIMSON office today from 8.45 to 9.30 a.m., and from 1 to 2 p.m. The men who have subscribed can pay then. New subscriptions are also...
Notices have been sent to all members of the General Committee of Students who have undertaken to canvass the dormitories for rooms, furniture and bedding to be placed at the disposal of the Cuban teachers this summer, requesting them to expedite the work as much as possible. In order that the committee may know just what will be necessary fully to equip the rooms placed at their disposal, men canvassing must turn in a definite statement of the furnishings to be loaned with each room and of all money, furniture and bedding loaned by the occupants of the private dormitories...