Word: voted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bowl remained in the custody of the society until last December, when it was abstracted by the present defendants after the passage of a resolution giving it to the president of the senior class, which, it is now claimed by the plaintiffs, was invalid - first, because no quorum voted upon it; and, second, because it was not in the power of a majority of the society to vote its property to themselves or to any one of their number. The defendants' counsel urged chiefly that the bill should be dismissed because it was too frivolous to be entitled...
...clouded with uncertainty. The proposition was that the payments of the undergraduates be raised from pound1 per annum to pound2, the master of Balliol remarking that what the undergraduates had gained was not to be measured by pound1 or pound5 or pound10. It was adopted in congregation by a vote...
...entire college that the freshmen, by losing their game Saturday, have forfeited the right of taking part in the tree exercises on class day. However, although the action of the senior class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There has been a great deal of misunderstanding...
...special meeting of the board of overseers was held yesterday forenoon, Hon. E. R. Hoar presiding. It was voted to concur with the president and fellows in the changes regarding degrees; also, in appointing Josiah Royce instructor in philosophy for the current year. The vote of the president and fellows to establish a professorship of veterinary medicine, was laid on the table for future consideration, and the appointment of Henry Jacob Bigelow, M. D., emeritus professor of surgery, in consideration of his many valuable services to the medical school during the past 33 years, was referred to Messrs. Hodges, Parker...
...class meeting of '83 last night Pach was elected photographer for next year by a vote of 20 to 18 for Notman. It was further voted that Mr. Pach be requested to take all the out-door groups himself, or appoint some more competent artist than the gentleman who at present represents him. Bids were presented from the Heliotype and Albertype Companies, but no vote was taken, as it was thought better to prepare subscription books in which men might signify their preference after having examined the relative merits of the two companies. The bid of the Heliotype Company...