Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vice-president, Mr. W. A. Halbert, '85. The question under debate was, "Resolved, That the requirement of Greek for admission to Harvard College should be abolished." The principal disputants were: Affirmative, Hibbard, '84, Roundy, '85 ; negative, Barnes, '84, E. B. Young, '85. Previous to the debate a secret ballot was held on the merits of the question, which resulted in a vote of, affirmative 24, negative, 32. The debate was then thrown open to the house and the following members spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Bowen, '85, Merriam, '86, Gray, '87, Fraser, '86, W. B. Schofield, '87, Storrow...
...meeting of the Union Thursday evening to discuss the interference of the Harvard faculty in athletics was one of the most interesting of the year. The question for debate read, Resolved, "That the interference of the Harvrd faculty in athletics is justifiable." On the secret ballot on the merits of the question the faculty were sustained by a vote of 35 to 21. Mr. A. G. Webster, '85, then opened the debate in the affirmative, claiming that the game of foot-ball had degenerated greatly of late, and to sustain his position quoted from a New York newspaper...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON :-Clause six of the '84 class election provides that "after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all others candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...
...secretary eventually elected would have been thrown out at the first had the meeting not amended the rules. Later in the evening the orator finally receiving the majority of votes would have been rejected by such a rule as the '84 committee propose. To prove that freedom of ballot need not work disadvantageously, I will state that '83's meeting was an hour and a half shorter than '82's, in which the shutout rule was adopted...
...right of every '84 man to vote, and it is also his right to have that vote counted without restriction. To limit the freedom of ballot is practically to take away the right of voting...