Word: vote
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Accordingly I throw my vote...
...view by that liberal gentleman was to afford to poor students the means of obtaining good, substantial board at cost price. The club was organized under the form of an independent body, but this independence is now merely nominal, as the Faculty have an absolute veto on any vote passed by the association. The number of students connected with the Club has gradually increased, until it now amounts to 260. The principal officer of the concern is the Steward: he is elected by the members from among their own number, and receives a salary of $400 per annum. His duties...
...greatly to their advantage to consult the former of these essays, for many interesting questions are there started. "Is it the violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element of Insurrection or of Invasion, for a man to place in the ballot-box a vote for whatever candidate he may choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately the name of the author is withheld, so that we cannot communicate our solutions to her; otherwise...
...possession, but yet so near at hand. Yet if one of the two privileges, smoking or reading, must be given up, the latter, it is much to be regretted, is the one which is usually dispensed with. It is now too late to lament the result of the vote upon this subject, for we are forced to acknowledge that it is what we ought to have expected from our own negligence, when we consider how far those who actually use the weed, and those to whom the presence of its smoke is not offensive, exceed in number the remaining classes...