Word: canvassing
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...system. The more we recognize these disadvantages, the more we ought to look-out that the system does not become burdened by new and superfluous dangers. I am sorry to see that a new harm connected with the election of courses is threatening in consequence of the postal card canvass of the Seniors which the Harvard Illustrated Magazine instituted and published the week before last...
When I first read it, I was amused and thought it good fun. But to my surprise I have discovered in talking with students who consulted me about their choice of courses for next that there are men who really consider this canvass report of favorite and regretted courses a guide for their election. Under these circumstances, it ought to be said with emphasis that taken seriously the canvass is misleading and dangerous...
...easy to take care that no one of them would regret it. Or I might make the course entertaining and adjust it to the level of the friend who "slept most of the time." In either case the course would beautifully climb up in the list of the canvass, but its chief purpose would be missed. My aim has been every year to bring psychology to as many men as there are seats in the largest hall of Emerson and yet to keep the course on a high scientific level so that the best men may get the most possible...
...ready to sail in July. The Harvard Mission is endeavoring to raise the $1500 necessary for his expenses, and is relying upon graduate and undergraduate support. As it is late in the year it will be impossible for the undergraduate committee of the Mission to make a complete canvass, but contributions of from 25 cents of $10 are none the less earnestly sought from undergraduates. These should be sent to Phillips Brooks House or given to one of the following committee which has the matter in charge: E. C. Bacon '10, H. B. Barton '09, F. H. Burr...
This year's canvass should be even more successful than the former one, for we shall be able to have a comparison of the two estimates and see what changes have been made. An opportunity like this should not be allowed to go by unnoticed, and we are glad that the returns so far give promise of even better results than before...