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What can perhaps be called the nearest solution to this problem has been utilized by Eliot House to a remarkable degree of efficiency and popularity. This consists in a personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House...
...complete poll of the undergraduates conducted by the Crimson two weeks ago, which covered three-fourths of the college. Perhaps the Club would do well to get down to business in a really serious fashion and investigate the School of City Planning which has only eleven members. If they canvass that institution as they did the Law School, only four men need vote, and if they should be Democrats, victory is assured. Again the School of Landsape Architecture with its 19 members would boost the Democratic supporters to their hasty conclusions just as well...
...purpose of the club, as outlined by Watson, is to canvass thoroughly all eligible voters and see that they become registered. Absentee ballots will be procured through the organization...
...Department supply scandals but Partner Hamilton was not entangled. In politics Hamilton started at the bottom as a precinct captain, for two reasons worked up rapidly: 1) An urge to get on top of the heap, which drives him to work incessantly-he made a house-to-house canvass on foot to win his first election as probate judge in 1920. 2) Adoption by a potent political father, David W. Mulvane, late boss of Kansas. In 1924 Hamilton,' with Mulvane's backing, was elected to the Kansas Legislature, served until 1928, finished as its Speaker. Far from...
...first big job for all heelers will be the collection of first hand information on all Freshmen, as to what committees and organizations they are on, what scholarships they hold, etc. This canvass will be made in March, when the Freshmen are definitely established...