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...join?" As will be seen by the communication which we publish today, a mass meeting is proposed as the best way of discovering the sentiment of the students thus solving the difficulty. Before this is done, however, it might be well to await the result of the Harvard Union canvass for presidential preference, which is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the officers of the union. Too much dependence, however, must not be placed upon this canvass as the question. "Shall I vote for Cleveland and Hendricks or for Blaine and Logan?" is to many men a very...
...officers: Mr. Halbeit, '85, President; Mr. Sanford, ;85, Vice President; Mr. Rich, '87, Secretary and Treasurer. The question for discussion at the next meeting is "Resolved that party feeling ceases when unfit candidates are made." During the course of the evening it was moved and carried to make a canvass of the college to ascertain the political leaning of the students. Of those who spoke were Mr. Hansen, '85, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Rich, Mr. Merriam and Mr. Saunders. After a vote of thanks had been passed to Mr. Saunders, the retiring President, the meeting adjourned...
...both from loss of life and tuition fees. Investigations of fire escapes for the dormitories were consequently undertaken. For a few weeks the students were treated to a daily exhibition of some patent way of sliding from the fourth story window without damage to bone or muscle. The patent canvass bag, the self-working pulley, and several other inventions were tried, but found to be impractical. Nevertheless, it was said, the faculty would spare no efforts or money to make the life of students in the dormitories secure. After a year's deliberation, it was decided that the college would...
...have been informed that a canvass was made recently among the students of Wellesley College to ascertain their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made...
...reported that the presidential canvass at Wellesly College resulted in a heavy majority in favor of Edmunds...