Word: mass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the vote passed by the mass meeting, the committee to maintain order in the yard will be elected by ballot to-day. The election will take place in Sever 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each senior voting will write the names of 5 members of '86 on a slip of paper and sign his name. Each junior will write the names of 4 members of '87, each sophomors the names of 3 members of '88, and each freshman the names of 2 members of '89. Unsigned ballots will not be counted. There will be a separate...
Thursday morning the Yale Corporation held an election for president, to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of President Porter. The nominations were secret, yet it is thought that the following gentlemen were the candidates: Professor Timothy Dwight, President Francis A. Walker of the Mass. Institute of Technology, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, and Professor Brush of the Yale Scientific School. A number of ballots were taken without result, but on the final ballot, Professor Timothy Dwight, professor of sacred literature in the Yale Divinity School, was unanimously elected. Professor Dwight will be inaugurated the day following commencement...
...action of the mass-meeting in Holden last evening was eminently wise, and will without doubt meet with the approbation of the students at large. The Conference Committee is doing good work, but there is little doubt that it is the will of the students that a committee which is elected for conference only shall not have executive power. It may be urged that the basis of representation pursued in the choice of the conference committee will be unjust to the lower classes, if followed in the election of a committee like the yard committee, which will be brought into...
Resolved, That we, the students in mass-meeting assembled, do accept this trust in full appreciation of its meaning, and devote to use our influence to suppress disturbances of all kinds in the college yard...
...Berenson's "Heinrich Jung-Stillung." It connot but make us proud, as Harvard students, that such work is being done among us. Mr. Leahy, in his story, has touched a note much higher in both strength and purity than is reached in the mass of college work. We would only suggest that he might have gained even greater strength, had he followed more closely the brevity and compactness in the formation of his sentences, which is a strong point of French writers. Mr. Berenson's account of Jung-Stilling is told in an intensely interesting manner, and with great lucidity...