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...canvass of the leading non-scientific departments of the University indicates the general adoption of the reading periods in all courses except those regularly open to Freshmen or peculiarly unsuited to such a plan. A majority of the departments canvassed have already approved the new plan in its main outline, while leaving the details, and in many cases the final decision as to its adoption to the individual professors and instructors. The remainder of the departments have not yet passed a final vote on the matter...
...Canvass. In all the 120 counties touched by the flood, house-to-house canvasses were made to determine exactly what was needed in con- struction, repairs, furniture, seed, livestock, fowls, clothing. In 111 counties these canvasses were completed. The remaining nine coun- ties had estimated their necessities...
...CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary...
...annual Phillips Brooks House drive for text books opens today in all the dormitories of the University, when the collectors who have been appointed will begin a canvass of all the rooms...
...built in a day, new ideas can not be hurried, and progress must take its own slow course perhaps, but it seems no less unfortunate that the University dining hall project must again be delayed because of a lack of energy in carrying out a systematic and efficient canvass of the feeling of the undergraduates on the question. The decision of the Freshman Committee to abandon its petition after obtaining two hundred signatures means only one thing,--there will be no amelioration of the eating problem for at least another year, Five hundred names was set by President Lowell...