Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting was not very full, only fifty or sixty members being present. But Mr. William Thayer, of the class of '81, was present and when Captain Pfeiffer made a motion to have a resolution passed to the effect that a graduate advisory committee be appointed, he advocated it and seemed to think that the graduates would take an interest, and would work for the crew. Discussion then ensued as to the advisability of this committee and what powers it should have. Mr. Pfeiffer said his idea was that this committee of three men should be chosen and elected...
...president then called for nominations for the office of president. Mr. Trafford was the only nominee and was elected by acclamation on a motion by Mr. Woodbury...
...Hunter moved that the president be empowered to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions of sympathy, and that a copy of the same be sent to the parents of Mr. Levi. The motion was seconded and carried. The chair appointed the following gentlemen to serve on this committee : Messrs. Faxon, Griswold and Hunter, who, the chair stated, had been friends of Mr. Levi, and who, he thought, were, for this reason, best able to express the sympathy of the class...
...motion was made and carried that Mr. P. S. Sears and Q. A. Shaw be sent to New Haven as Harvard's representatives to the intercollegiate tournament to be held there next week; and that Messrs. P. S. Sears and H. M. Sears, Q. A. Shaw and T. S. Tailer, C. Bohlen and F. Keene, and Lee and Talant be requested to report at 2.30 p. m. on the Longwood Grounds...
...deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank.' He boasted that he was the greatest traveller in this country; and certain it is that penniless as he almost always was, he was ever in motion, and after a week's stay at Harvard was likely to turn up at any moment at Washington or some more distant place. He was a self-announced candidate for President of the United States in every campaign, and would argue about his chances with unbounded confidence. When told...