Word: canvassing
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...join a Blaine and Logan procession, they could do nothing else under the circumstances. But it does not seem fair for them to try to swell their numbers from the undergraduates and thus prevent the college from going in a body in one procession or the other. The Union canvass has decided the question and the college is going in the Republican procession. Those who go, and we see no reason why it should not be every man, go for the enjoyment of the thing and not because they are aiding or defeating anybody's election...
...result of the canvass undertaken by the Harvard Union has been published and the subject of the torchlight procession has been decided. The old custom of marching in the ranks of the Republicans will be followed for another year. The vote was very close for presidential preference, Blaine receiving a plurality of only twenty-one, but for choice of processions the college seemed to be largely in favor of the Republican one. We do not see the necessity of holding a mass meeting as the question is practically decided. The Independents and Democrats had better hold a meeting and adopt...
...task of canvassing the college has been no easy one, but has been carried on rapidly and successfully. For this work the college is once more indebted to the Harvard Union, which has always shown energy and dispatch in taking up such investigations. This fall, no doubt the Union will afford us a few opportunities of listening to the political orators of Harvard College. It would be interesting to compare the result of the canvass just completed, with a vote in the Harvard Union after an exhaustive discussion of the relative merits of the two candidates for the Presidency...
...favorite at Harvard College by a small plurality, and therefore the choice of the students. The republican procession seems to be more popular still, as many Cleveland men prefer it to the democratic procession. If we may draw conclusions from a comparison of this vote with the canvass of last spring for candidates for the presidency, there is a manifest falling off in the Republican party. Last spring 878 students were in favor of republican and 153 of democratic candidates. This fall there is a gain of about 300 for the democratic, and the same loss for the republican candidates...
...leading motive of the Union in undertaking a canvass was to place on record the standing of the students on this great political question of the day. A secondary motive was to ascertain which party torchlight procession, the majority of the students favored...