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...committee of thirteen appointed to canvass for subscriptions for the world's fair recommend that it be indefinitely postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 1/17/1882 | See Source »

...RECENTLY made canvass of the Law School, to ascertain the relative representation of the various religions in that school, gives the following result: Whole number of students, 154; Episcopalians, 40; Unitarians, 32; Non-Sectarians, 22; Congregationalists, 20; Roman Catholics, 11; Agnostics, 8; Universalists, 5; Presbyterians, 4; Jews, 3; Methodists, 3; Baptists, 3; Atheists, 2; Dutch Reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...little. The University, however, in declaring for an honest and competent man to direct the affairs of the nation, has performed its duty. The vote, though not as large as it might have been, speaks well for the interest taken in politics by undergraduates, while the success of the canvass was owing, in a great measure, to the efforts of the Chairman of the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

THOSE members of the Law School who voted at the canvass taken recently by the Law School are expected not to vote again, as the result of that ballot will be taken into account...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...POLITICAL canvass of the Law School gives the following result: Proportion of Republican votes, 58 per centum; of Democratic votes, 42 per centum. On the presidential question: for Bayard, 38 per centum; Sherman, 14 per centum; Grant, 10 per centum; Edmunds, 7 per centum; Blaine, 7 per centum; Hayes, 6 per centum; Evarts, 6 per centum; "anti-Grant," 6 per centum; scattering, 6 per centum. The polls were open for a week, and hard work was done for Grant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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