Word: canvassers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is my favorite magazine. In St. Petersburg, Fla., recently I made a canvass of a number of newsstands before I found a copy of TIME. When found, the man behind the counter remarked when he handed it to me, "This is only a rich man's magazine." When asked why he thought so, he said: "One never sees the portrait of any other than a rich man, on the front cover." He challenged me to name a single exception. I could not do it. Are there...
...Phillips Brooks House clothing canvass which closed last Saturday netted an odd assortment of Harvard haberdashery. Nineteen pairs by knickers, 20 soft felt hats, 15 stiff collars, four white full dress vests and one pair of cerise flannel underwear were among the sartorial prizes contributed for the needy Northmen...
Under the direction of C. G. T. Lundell '27, a field force of 125 men has started a canvass of the University dormitories. Antique hats, shirts, coats, trousers, all the essentials for the well-dressed man of several years ago are the objects desired by the Phillips Brooks collectors. These men are calling at the students' rooms and are carrying away by truck the clothing donated by each dormitory...
...similar innovation in regard to magazines for the Common rooms will also be discussed. This year, the magazines subscribed for will be the ones marked out as favorites by the results of a room-to room canvass conducted by the recently appointed dormitory committees...
...Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of college in his Sophomore year...