Word: caste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bowdoin College has just received a cast of the Marble Faun. The original, by Proxitiles, is in the Capitoline at Rome. The cast was presented to the college by the class...
...connection with today's election it may be interesting to examine the qualifications necessary for a student to vote. Any citizen who wishes to cast his ballot must register (registration for this year closed a week ago Saturday), and must have paid some state or county tax, assessed upon him in any part of the commonwealth within two years of election day. He must also possess a domicil in the city or town where he wishes to vote. Whether students posses such a domicil in Cambridge or not is a question which has been little understood, though the law seems...
...Abbott took for his text the 13th and 16th verses of the 11th chapter of Hebrews. He spoke of the necessity of progress. Pagan countries are stereotyped, they are printed from stereotype plates cast two thousand years ago. The religion of the church, of the priests, of the ministers has not always been forward, but the religion of the Bible is forward. We should not look backward for our ideals but forward. The world is better today than it was yesterday, it will be better tomorrow that it was today if we do our duty. Don't be discouraged...
...Every office shall be voted 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 12 sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. 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...