Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...weight is too light for football. As it is, a great many men idle about the gymnasium in the afternoon who would be very glad of some kind of exercise which would afford more excitement than pulley-weights and dumb-bells. The game is one that keeps everyone in motion all the time and is particularly well suited for this season of the year...
...Every office shall be voted separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. No motion to close the nominations shall be in order until a fair chance has been given to each voter to make his nomination. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
things, like those machines of perpetual motion, admirable in every way but one-that they will not go. I believe that I understand and value form as much as I should, but I also believe that some of those who have insisted most strongly on its supreme worth as the shaping soul of a work of art have imprisoned the word "soul" in a single one of its many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious...
...last meeting of the board of directors, the following motion was passed...
AUGUSTUS HEMENWAY.After remarks by Professor Putnam on the importance of the Hemenway collections and their arrangement in the Peabody Museum, for which at present a hall sixty feet square could be immediately assigned, on motion of Mr. Lowell the following vote was unanimously passed...