Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...same officers who served last year were re-elected. They were as follows: President, George C. Lee, Jr.; vice-president, Russell B. Beals; secretary and treasurer, George C. Kellogg. The question of appointing a committee to make arrangements for the Class Day elections was brought up and a motion passed giving the president authority to appoint the committee, and M. Ladd, Clarence Morgan and Harris Kennedy were chosen to constitute...
...Kishimoto's exhibition of Japanese top-spinning which came next was something entirely new, and he showed great skill and dexterity in his management of the top. After a little juggling with the top while it was in motion he began the second part of his act which was really wonderful...
Setting the top in motion with his hands he took a string and by throwing the top in the air, and catching it on its peg in a loop of the string be kept it continually spinning. Once the top went so high as to strike the rafters supporting the roof but it was caught nevertheless. He then walked around the hall keeping the top spinning all the time and throwing it over his head, under his legs and behind his back. The spectators were greatly pleased with the exhibition and Kishimoto received much applause...
Mars has two satellites, the inner of which is remarkable in that it rises in the west, its motion being very rapid. Jupiter has five satellites of which one was discovered last summer by Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory. The velocity of light was first determined by observation of the eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, Uranus has four satellites and Neptune has one which is remarkable as having a retrograde motion...