Word: voted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Board of Directors at Memorial Hall yesterday at 1.30 P.M. (and at the adjourned meeting at 6.30 P.M.), the following resolutions were adopted. The vote on the 5th resolution, in regard to the steward's salary, stood, affirmative, 5; negative...
...must be noticed that these resolutions are merely advisory, and must receive the confirmatory vote of the directors and the corporation before going into effect...
...matter of teaching, the Scotch universities are much like American colleges. The methods are catechetical; teaching is regarded as more important than examinations; prizes are in vogue and exercise great influence. In Scotland, prizes are usually awarded by vote of the students. Practically the system works better than would awards by the professors. Prizes generally go where they belong. The Scotch universities are cheap, because the fees are low and the students live where they please. Their conspicuous and distinctive merit lies in the great stimulative power of their teaching. In England there is, with less of this stimulus, perhaps...
...college base-ball players who competed with professional players where gate-money was charged, be rescinded, for the reason that they individually receive no part of the proceeds, but that the money received is entirely applied to paying the expenses of the nine. The rule was rescinded, and the vote referred to the executive committee for confirmation...
...French Senate, Saturday, discussing compulsory education, rejected, by a vote of 167 to 123, an amendment by M. Jules Simon, requiring school-masters to teach their pupils duty toward God and the country...