Word: canvassing
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...have not had a chance to vote in the canvass of the University may do so by signing their full names in the blue-books which have been placed at Leavitt's, Sanborn's and at Memorial Hall...
...undergraduates, it would do more than anything else could to establish sympathetic relations between the students and officers of instruction and government in the University. Such a committee would be of service for example in the discussion of the proctor system in examinations and kindred subjects, where now a canvass of individual student opinion is necessary...
...spur of the moment without thought, for such contributions will not be of much value. Several positions have already been suggested by the graduates as good sites for the club, but they have not proved thoroughly satisfactory, and nothing definite will be decided until a more thorough canvass of opinion has been made...
Though nothing has recently been made public concerning the University Club project, the graduates interested in the plan have not been idle, and the canvass of opinion in the various Harvard clubs has progressed rapidly. It is very gratifying to see with what unanimity the members of the New York club have backed up the plan. Now that the two largest graduate clubs in the East have announced themselves as heartily in favor of a University Club, there can be but little doubt that the project will be carried through successfully...
...prominent boating men has offered to look after the shells. Thirteen men will be taken over and Mr. Robert J. Cook '76 will accompany them as coach. Two shells, exactly similar to those used by Yale for the past ten years, will be taken along. A careful canvass has been made of the candidates for the crew, and it is found that none will be disqualified by the clause in the Henley entrance requirements which prohibits any person who has done manual labor from rowing at that event. The expense is roughly estimated at $10,000. Of this about...