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...eighty Amherst men in Political Science 27, given only in the fall of election years, field work is the "core of the course." During the campaign period demands on their time are "almost limitless." They send out campaign literature, write speeches, and canvass door-to-door instead of reading about politics in textbooks...
...newsmen quickly found jobs in the classified ad department of another paper. They were fired as soon as their names turned up on the government blacklist. Others who tried to work in department stores, tourist and export agencies met the same fate. One top editor is now a door-to-door washing machine salesman. Others give private language lessons, work in hardware stores or small shops under assumed names. Not one has a newspaper...
...life as a fashionable architect, sold his house and horses, put all his resources into the church-building fund. He moved into the construction yard adjoining the church, slept on a cot in a small bare room. In 1914, when all funds were exhausted, Gaudi went on a door-to-door pilgrimage through Catalonia, begged enough money to keep working. Said Gaudi philosophically: "The landlord of this building has eternity before...
...Cross mobile blood unit will be set up at Memorial Hall this morning to been five days of bloodletting, following P.B.H.'s door-to-door student pledge campaign which netted over 3,000 student donations...
Apathy towards the Student Council poll on the effectiveness of General Education courses has resulted in a door-to-door canvas which will begin Monday. Committee Chairman Robert H. Cole '52 said that efforts to round up the 674 questionnaires have brought in only 457 replies. Tabulations of the polls already received will begin today...