Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...criticism can effect the change desired by those whose opinions Mr. Garrison has so well represented. We acknowledge much truth in what the gentleman urges, but take exceptions to his sweeping method of dealing with the evils. Let us see. What do we have proposed? The abolition of the secret, societies "whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed...
Such temptations are unquestionably to be found in the secret societies whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness. They are to my mind the greatest (and a most insidious) evil in the present constitution of the college, and are the nurseries both of extravagance and of vicious habits. Their debasing effect on those who aspire to them as a mark of distinction is, I apprehend, not realized by the faculty, though Yale offers such a warning example of the same corruption. How far it is well or possible for the authorities to interdict such associations and how far to check them...
...adopted in '83 and '84 have been entirely done away with this year. He declares that everything at the boat-house is open to inspection at any time, and whenever there is room anyone can go out in the launch and see the crew row. The only thing kept secret is the time made, and this is not given out for obvious reasons...