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...meet the wartime demands for blood plasma, a new drive has been organized at Harvard. Members of the Phillips Brooks House War Service committee will canvass the different Houses for prospective donors. All men and women over 18 and in normal health are eligible to give their blood...
...canvass showed that 82% of the people do not want an election until after the Nazis are licked. This overwhelming majority was divided: 22% for voting immediately after victory; 24% for a six-months' wait; 36% for a twelve-months' wait. Only 12% of the polled wanted to vote immediately; only 6% were still undecided...
House student athletic heads began making a canvass last week of available players for intramural football which will begin September 15, Adolph W. Samborski, director of intramural athletics, announced yesterday. Intramural football this season is being organized to use players left over after the College squad has been chosen...
Letters are being sent to all men who have left College since September, and a door-to-door canvass will be run this week and next to enable men still around Cambridge to give their share...
Significant is C.E.D.'s highly decentralized "grassroots" approach. It proposes ultimately to establish up to 150 regional offices which will canvass local industry to find out how quickly it can convert from war work to peace; what is its top peacetime capacity; and how each firm plans to merchandise its products so as to create a mass market...