Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...majority of the students to have a yard committee, or to hold a second election at once to determine upon a committee who shall be elected by a majority of the whole number of the students of the university. We shall not comment upon the significance of the mass-meeting, we do not care to argue pro or con upon the make-up of the committee first elected. Only one of two things is now left the college to do; let the students show that they can do what as men they are now called upon to do. Every...
...mass meeting urging the election of the yard committee, the election itself, remarkable for the paucity of the votes cast, and the resignation of the committee have followed in rapid succession, and the college has now ample opportunity for retrospect. The faculty of late years have shown a spirit of liberal action in their treatment of the students, and the students have responded in a manly spirit. But on Tuesday a severe blow was dealt to progress at Harvard. The undergraduates have been given one more privilege, and this time they have been found wanting. Hereafter the faculty we fear...
...believe that, from the smallness of the vote cast, they do not represent the general feeling of the college, and also that the smallness of the vote indicates an unwillingness on the part of the students to undertake the control of the yard, notwithstanding the vote of the mass-meeting, Resolved: that the committee do hereto unanimously resign their office...
Natural History 5, Mass...
Natural History 13, Mass...