Word: cast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every officer is to be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
...fact that the Institute of Technology had decided to parade in their ranks. This invitation was well written, and might have produced some effect had it been borne out by facts. But unfortunately the Technology does not propose to turn out for Cleveland, as is shown by the vote cast at their mass meeting, Monday, which resulted in the following ballot: Blaine, 259; Cleveland, 85; St.-John, 6; Butler...
...Harvard (minister of Charlestown), a godly gentleman, and a lover of learning, living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate, it being in all about 1700 pounds, towards the erecting of a college, and all his library. After him another gave 300, others after them cast in more, and the public hand of the State added the rest, 400. The college was by common consent appointed to be at Cambridge, a place very pleasant and accommodate, and is called according to the name of the first founder, Harvard College...
...time of the election which will follow the heated canvass of this fall, many students will seriously regret their inability to cast a vote for what they consider the best cause. Those whose distant homes do not permit them to vote there may have often conjectured as to the nature of the restrictions on their voting here. Upon inquiry we were informed by the city clerk of Cambridge that a decision had been given by the Supreme Court that persons residing in Campridge for purposes of education and dependent for support upon parents or friends in another district...
...laid down." The writer asserts that, although the meaning of the degree of Bachelor of Arts has quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition, inherited tastes, and transmitted opinions; the educational practices of today are still cast in the moulds of the seventeenth century. The scholars of that time saw a great light which shone out of darkness and they worshipped it; and we, their descendants, in the ninth generation, upon whom greater lights have arisen, still worship at the same shrine. A position of academically equality...