Word: canvassed
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Minor opposition flared around the suggestion that the Committee had not investigated the Scholarship Program and thus should not endorse it. It was also felt that the canvass might require too much of the Committee member's time during reading period. Other Committeemen successfully attacked both points...
...freshmen brushed aside Sloane's view and voted "unanimous and mandatory" participation in the Yard canvass scheduled for Monday night. "If we're going to touch this we might as well do it all the way," declared a spokesman for complete support...
...have the chance of a lifetime, a chance to remove the stench of the Smoker from coming classes," declared Fred Sander '59, who opposed the canvass, emphasizing the apathy and ignorance of the class...
Union Committee chairman Mark Earl circumvented the opponents of an opinion poll by loading the five-man steering committee with supporters of the poll. Karl's maneuver paid quick dividends, as the sub-committee voted, in a quick session following adjournment, definitely to canvass the class...
Before the Fund was founded, all Harvard's free gifts came from bequests and wills of wealthy alumni. Occasionally, when there was a pressing necessity for money, an alumni canvass would be organized. Several of these were made in the late 1910's and early 1920's to raise teachers' salaries. One of them, in 1919, produced close to $13,000,000, but many graduates felt that a constant flow of unrestricted funds would be much better than periodic, inefficient campaigns which occurred only in times of serious emergency...