Word: selectmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Twenty-four theological Yale students have applied to be made voters. The selectmen, however, refused to register their names...
...Fletcher Webster, vice-pres.; James A. Dorr, secretary; Francis (now professor) Bowen, treasurer. There was also an executive-committee which appointed a lecturer and one disputant for each side of the question for debate at each meeting. The society at one time "hired the old court house from the selectmen" for their meetings and voted to "ask the faculty to pay, as usual, half the cost of heating and lighting the same." At a later time, the faculty, at the joint request of the Institute of 1770 and the Union, repaired University 3 for their use. The college bell...
...society at one time "hired the old court house of the selectmen" for their meetings, and voted to "ask the faculty to pay, as usual, half the cost of heating and lighting the same." At a later time the faculty, at the joint request of the Institute of 1770 and the Harvard Union, repaired University 3 for their...
Three theological students at Yale have brought suit against the selectmen of New Haven for refusing to permit them to vote last fall...
Wilbur F. Booth, a student in Yale College, recently appeared before the board of selectmen in New Haven, to be made a voter. He was twenty-one years of age last August, and has been in college two years. His parents reside in Easton, in that State, and the young man has earned his living since he has been in college. He argued his case before the board, and did not succeed in obtaining from them any reason satisfactory to him why he should not be made a voter. But the board held that students in an institution of learning...