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...canvass last year brought to the Class Fund a large revenue with which to begin active work. On account of this revenue, it was determined by the class officers in executive meeting to give from $150 to $200 to the Dinner Committee in order that the price of tickets for the dinner might in some cases be reduced without financial embarrassment to that committee. This step was taken in an effort to gather as large a percentage of the class as possible at the annual dinner, and the success of the occasion more than justified...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year...
...last spring. To aid in collecting these, postal reminders were sent out in December, shortly before the Christmas Recess, and a committee from 1917, consisting of G. A. Parsons, chairman, H. L. Sweetser, H. M. Bliss, C. A. Coolidge, Jr., E. A. Douglas, and H. Wentworth was appointed to canvass the Freshman class for pledges. An active week of campaigning by this committee netted $3,811 in pledges. Early in January personal letters were sent to those who had failed to respond to the postal card reminders, and a Sophomore committee was appointed, consisting of R. H. Stiles, chairman...
Students are requested to leave any extra books which they may have at the loan library of Phillips Brooks House today. Collectors will canvass the Senior Dormitories from 1 to 2.30 o'clock but anyone who is not in his room at that time will greatly facilitate the work of the committee by leaving his books where they may be procured. It is hoped that Sophomores and Freshmen especially will contribute largely to the library...
...members of the committee, which will be under the direction of H. A. Larrabee '16, will write to prospective students during the summer and establish at least a preliminary relation between Freshmen and men familiar with the University. They will also participate in the "fall canvass," interesting undergraduates in the work of Phillips Brooks House and the Christian Association...