Word: canvassers
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Owing to the want of a large meeting room in the Johns Hopkins University, no canvass for the coming election has been held; the political sentiment, as far as it is known, is strongly democratic...
...School canvass, which is now nearly complete, 200 out of 216 men having been seen stands as follows...
...second and more complete presidential canvass is being held among the Law School students. The result promises to be much closer than the one under the auspices of the Union...
...parade, instead of being larger and better organized than ever before the parade will be little more than a farce. No one should let political or partisan motives hinder him from joining in the procession. The purely political sentinent of the college will best be shown by the canvass; the parade itself is entirely a matter of personal enjoyment and fun. As the four different classes have voted to take part in the parade, let every one be ruled by the majority and make the Harvard procession the success it ought...
After the excitement occasioned by the report of the canvass had somewhat subsided, the temporary secretary of the Union, Mr. H. A. Davis, read the question for the evening's debate-"Resolved, that the present attitude of the Prohibition party is antagonistic to the advancement of prohibition." Mr. C. F. Ayer, of the Law School, opened the debate for the affirmative. He said, primarily, that the law which the Prohibitionists wish to bring to pass was a sumptuary one. No law should be passed that cannot be enforced. Maine is an example that the prohibitory law is useless...