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...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...power of levying troops from the contingents of the States represented in the confederation. With regard to the navy his power is unlimited. The German parliament consists of two bodies, the Seichstag corresponding to our House of Representatives and the Bundesrath to our Senate. Fifty-eight votes are cast in the Bundesrath, which are distributed among the different States in proportion to their size. The members do not vote as in this country according to their personal desire, but as they are instructed by the government of the State which they represent. Accordingly members from the same State never vote...
...Nature seems to cast a spell...
...ensuing year. At the dinner of the alumni in Memorial Hall, the crowd was larger than ever before. The Hon. Joseph H. Choate, of New York presided. In the course of the speaking the election of overseers was announced as follows: Andrew P. Peabody, 580 votes, the highest number cast for one candidate; Francis M. Weld, 541; Solomon Lincoln, 499; Wm. C. Endicott, 375; Phillips Brooks, 319. The Rev. Phillips Brooks' name was not on any ticket...