Word: elects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probable that the Williams Athenaeum will be put in charge of a board of directors who shall run it and elect the editors, a matter that has been heretofore done by the classes. A college meeting was held last week, but definite action was postponed till Wednesday...
...faculty and it has been decided that the classics shall be retained. Latin and Greek are to be pursued as heretofore up to the end of the sophomore year, after which 75 per cent. of the studies are to be prescribed, and the student is to be allowed to elect the other 25 per cent. "In this way," says President Smith, "we can continue to offer a liberal education, with any direction towards the end of the course which students may desire to take...
...free from over-work during the next six weeks and should devote some of their time to supporting the college papers, the HERALD-CRIMSON first of all, for that appears regularly during the semis, in spite of the extra work needed in another direction. It is proposed to elect two editors from the freshman class for the ensuing half-year and additions to the number of sophomore editors are hoped...
...London Daily News said of Mr. Lowell's candidacy for the Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech...
...district, in England the number runs from one to four, and it frequently happens that members of the same party run for the same seat in the House of Commons, and it is not considered by any means, a breach of party faith. The result has frequently been, to elect the candidate of the minority. Especially was this the case in the last election in which the Conservatives lost a number of seats. So that now, a caucus system has been devised called the "Birmingham System," which in many respects resembles the one in vogue in this country. In London...