Word: motions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question now coming up in regard to the admission of new colleges to the privileges of the Association, it was found that four had applied, namely, Union, Hamilton, Rutgers, and New York College, while Brown and Amherst had applied for readmission. On motion of Harvard, Amherst and Brown were readmitted, with the privileges of the floor but not of voting. The other four were rejected by the Convention by a greater or less majority, Union being excluded by a majority of only one. Harvard, on the ground of expediency, voted against them all. A motion was also carried providing...
...carried. Action in regard to the admission of Hamilton also reconsidered, and the main question on a tie vote decided by chair in favor of the admission of Hamilton. Harvard voted against the proposition. An amendment to the Constitution offered by Mr. Ferry of Yale subsequently withdrawn, and on motion of Harvard all amendments to the Constitution deferred till the April meeting. On motion of Mr. Ferry, the Regatta rules were now amended to correspond in the main with those used by the National Rowing Association. Proposition of Yale to hold regatta on the 15th of July amended by Harvard...
...proposition of Yale to buoy the course in the next regatta by lines of flagged buoys, at intervals of an eighth of a mile. Amendment offered by Harvard to row the next race with coxswains was carried without discussion, and the discussion came in on the original motion as amended. Mr. Gunster of Williams spoke strongly in favor of coxswains, while Mr. Cook of Yale opposed them as too sudden an innovation. Harvard urged the proposition, which was finally assented to by a vote of 6 to 4, - Yeas, Columbia, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, Princeton, Brown; Nays, Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, Cornell...
...proposition to buoy the course then came up on a separate motion, and was carried. A motion to allow coxswains to be taken from graduates of a college was deemed unconstitutional, on the ground that they were members of a crew, and therefore came under the regular rules of eligibility. It was then moved and carried that the Regatta Committee be a committee of qualification...
This resolution was adopted. Tellers were next appointed, - Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Bird, Mr. Raymond, and Mr. N. Taylor. Mr. Lowery moved that officers be voted on as in the list given below. This motion was carried, and it was also decided that the method of the elections should be an informal ballot without nominations, immediately succeeded by a formal ballot on the same office. The following are the names of the gentlemen elected to fill the different offices; all the elections, if not unanimous at first, were made so by votes of the Class...