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SECTION 2. Any college journal after applying for admission, and securing a favorable report from the board of reference, subsequently ratified by a two-thirds vote of the association, may, by signing this constitution and paying an entrance fee of ten dollars, become a member of the Inter-Collegiate Press Association...
...negative was upheld by Messrs. McInness and Lane. At 9 o'clock the debate was returned to the principal disputants; after which the result of the secret ballot taken at the beginning of the meeting on the merits of the question was announced in favor of the affirmative. The vote by show of hands on the merits of the debate resulted in favor of the negative...
...next half hour was frittered away in trying to decide on a question of debate for the next meeting. The meeting rejected one subject after another, voting to reconsider the vote, and then rejecting the subject again. One or two gentlemen became so entangled in the snarl of amendments and amendments to amendments, that they did not know on which side they were voting, and had to ask leave to change their votes; while another gentleman seriously proposed that the union discuss the topic of "Free Tariff." The question finally decided on was : "Resolved, That the present tendency of athletics...
...acceptance, and with reason. The desire, however, to make Harvard understand that Columbia is no mean rival, which, judging from expressions of Harvard men in the past, that high and mighty institution seems to think she is, overcame the opposition and the challenge was accepted by the unanimous vote of the students in mass meeting assembled. The race in June will show what the probable result of last year's race would have been had Harvard remained at New London. It is impossible to forecast the result but I have no hesitation in saying that if our crew...
ARTICLE IV. - AMENDMENTS.This constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at any regularly called meeting of the association...