Word: canvassing
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Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday...
Schneider, who previously, was asked to resign by the director has held his position throughout the trials that have featured the growth of the school in its formative stages in the past few years. Upon his return, it is quite possible that he will canvass the country in his search for new stock, with which he has been replenishing and enlarging the cattle culture of the decadent section of the country where he has been engaged with Albanian school...
Interlude. The Chicago Tribune said in its leading editorial: "Neither Mr. Rockefeller nor Col. Stewart has yet kissed a baby, but the canvass has only begun...
...World replied that it had made no canvass of public sentiment, that the cartoon expressed only the view of Mr. Johnstone, a onetime Chicagoan. Then the World asked the News to wire 1,000 words on the "public excitement in Chicago" over it. The News obliged with quotes...
...portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...