Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after votes of thanks and cheers for the Chairman and the tellers, and cheers for various members elected, the meeting adjourned...
EIGHTY-TWO'S ELECTION.THE Senior Class Meeting was called to order at 7.15 P.M., Monday, by Mr. F. M. Stone, Chairman of the Preliminary Committee. The nomination of Mr. W. C. Wait for Chairman of the meeting was unanimously confirmed. The rules recommended by the Committee were adopted with slight alterations. The balloting for officers resulted as follows, - the final ballot in each case being given...
...Yale Faculty have consented to allow their crew to go to New London." (Groans from a man in an inconspicuous corner, whom I had heard referred to as the Exchange Exhibitor.) "There," said the chairman, "I flatter myself those are pretty good." Then, taking out his ruler, he continued after a pause, "I regret to say that we are still nine feet and three inches short. I will write the nine feet if some one will take the rest." After some discussion it was voted to be stow the rest upon the Exchange Exhibitor, who, after a long search...
...love. You all know what the Tramp is and has been, - the organ of stalwartism, the friend of those great statesmen, Logan and Cameron. WE took away from Hayes the prospect of a second term; WE have inaugurated J. G.; and, if you remember, WE seated our honored chairman [applause] in the gubernatorial chair. 'The Union must and shall be preserved,' the poet says. We condemn secession, and we refuse to place any confidence in those who lately sought to destroy the national government." [Prolonged applause...
...getting late," remarked the chairman, blushing like a school-boy at the complimentary remarks of the editor, "we cannot hope to hear from all our honored guests; but before we break up I desire to call upon Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n for the poem which he has kindly prepared for the occasion. It will be published in the next Harper's, with thirty-five pre-Raffaelite illustrations, many of them portraits of - of ourselves...