Word: exception
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Open to all members of the University except Freshmen...
Voted, That in the opinion of the Advisory Board the assistance of instructors in Harvard University in competitive debates, except in the case of the instructor in elocution, should be limited to pointing out material, giving information, and suggesting the general analysis of the subject. They should not arrange lines of argument, criticise the speeches of members of the teams, or debate against them...
...only efficient remedy for this state of things appears to be the extension of the hours to include evening lectures and recitations. Lectures at six-thirty, seven-thirty, and eight thirty, except Saturdays, would increase the number of hours forty per cent and probably afford adequate relief, for the present at least. This plan, to the average Harvard man, may appear at first sigh monstrous, but there is no reason why it should be so. German and English students are accustomed to evening appointments, and Harvard men should not be disturbed at the idea...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots shall be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in 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 ballot he shall be declared elected...
...except the committee and the tellers shall be allowed around the chairman's desk...