Word: manned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Then, by voting on the marshalships first we would have another chance to elect to office any prominent and valuable man who might have been defeated as a candidate for marshal...
...eighteen places were divided into the two groups into which they logically fall; if, as was proposed in the alternative to Clause III, the secretary, marshals, literary officers, and chorister, were to be elected on one day, and the committee men on a later day, then a man who had failed for an office proper (for example, a marshalship) could still come up for a committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual...
...first group of offices, some special qualification generally determines the choice; in the second group, however, this rule does not apply, since a man is usually as well fitted for one committee place as for another. Hence, it has happened that the candidates for the committees have as a rule fallen into the exact places for which they were "slated." Furthermore, it seems desirable to prevent successive nominations of a man for committee places, because that practice has in the past been more subject to abuse than use. It has frequently happened just as it happened last year, that...
BOXING.- Do you want to take boxing lessons? If so there is no better man than Wm. S. Gordon, who has been appointed instructor at the Gymnasium. Lessons at Gymnasium or at rooms. Wm. S. Gordon, New England School of Boxing, 127a Tremont street, Boston. 27tf...
Harvard's team this year was chosen at a very satisfactory trial debate at which forty-seven men competed, each man being allowed five minutes for his speech. Yale's speakers have been selected in a different manner. Four separate preliminary trials were held, at which about one hundred men spoke in all. From these fifteen were selected, as follows: Academic department, five; Sheffield School, two; Divinity School, two: Law School, three. The final trial was held on November 5, each of the fifteen speakers being allowed ten minutes. The following men were chosen: H. W. Fisher...