Word: canvassers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's commercial aristocrats, the great traders, founders of more than one great American house; New York and New England's ship builders, among them the famous Donald McKay; the Yankee skippers and the hard-bitten tars who hauled their canvass, stood their watch--all these are deftly, subtly portrayed...
Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday...
...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...
Schneider, who previously, was asked to resign by the director has held his position throughout the trials that have featured the growth of the school in its formative stages in the past few years. Upon his return, it is quite possible that he will canvass the country in his search for new stock, with which he has been replenishing and enlarging the cattle culture of the decadent section of the country where he has been engaged with Albanian school...
Interlude. The Chicago Tribune said in its leading editorial: "Neither Mr. Rockefeller nor Col. Stewart has yet kissed a baby, but the canvass has only begun...