Word: canvassed
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...allow the world to know it. If your space has not been already too much occupied with the procession question would you grant me a little now? If '87 and '88, as they undoubtedly will, decide to carry a transparency bearing the result of the canvass in their class, it is the duty of every man who voted for Cleveland to go in the Blaine procession, paradoxical as this may seem. Those men who voted for neither procession, probably did so on account of perhaps a physical disability, but it is fair to suppose that he who voted...
...result of the canvass of the college resulted in a total vote of 1,001 : of these Blaine received 483 ; Cleveland, 462 ; St. John, 27 ; no choice...
...discretion of a committee consisting of Messrs. Barnes, Merriam, Claflin, Winthrop. Snow, and Burnett. The class voted to wear the traditional black "stovepipe," and also, by a vote of 62 to 34, to carry a transparency bearing the vote of the class as shown by the Harvard Union canvass,-112 for Blaine, 85 for Cleveland. A motion was carried that, inasmuch as the standing of the class will be shown by this transparency the class parade as a unit. It was announced that all who saw fit might carry personal transparencies, provided that they met the approval of the standing...
...rumored that the Law School Blaine battalion will attempt to relieve the seniors of their transparency showing the result of the canvass in that class, 95 to 58 in favor of Cleveland...
There is, perhaps, no institution of Harvard more deserving and more neglected than the Harvard Union. The approaching debates aimed directly at a discussion of the purposes and results of the present political campaign will furnish an opportunity for what, judging from the late canvass of the college, should prove a most highly instructing review of the political outlook. Every student should feel it incumbent upon him to attend and lend his voice to a popular decision. We who are the future citizens of the country can well afford a preliminary study of the present political methods. The close vote...