Word: voted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of pulling. Almost every year hitherto it has been found that the ground on one side was sand or loose, and gave the other team a decided advantage, such an advantage that the team on the ground side, whatever its real ability was pretty sure to win. A vote was taken as to the merits o the new athletic resolutions and a decided majority was on the negative side. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President. J. M. Wainwright, '84, Columbia; vice-president, A. G. Fell, '84, Princton; secretary, J. L. Ludlow, '86, Lafayette; treasurer...
...Harvard Union held their first debate for the second half-year on Thursday evening, in Sever 11. A fair sized audience listened with interest, and pronounced the debate one of the best which the Union has held this year. The first vote was on the merits of the question: "Resolved, that Wendell Phillips' course in regard to slavery was that of a true statesman," and the result was: affirmative, 22; negative, 30. The debate was then opened for the affirmative by A. Z. Bowen, '85, and he was followed by Merriam, '86, for the negative. Messrs. E. T. Sanford...
Columbia College has one Annex notwithstanding the faculty's vote. A young lady graduate of Wellesley Colis pursing astronomical studies in the observatory...
...recent meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni in New York it was voted that the sense of the meeting was in favor of a bill which is to be submitted to the Legislature of Maine providing that the board of overseers of Bowdoin College shall be elected by a direct vote of the Alumni, as is done at Harvard...
...follows: Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Tufts, Harvard, Columbia, Trinity, Hobart, Lafayette, Rutgers, Union, Bowdoin, Princeton, College of the City of New York, Stevens Institute, Wesleyan University, Brown, Cornell, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, University of Vermont, and the University of Pennsylvania. It is not likely that the Yale faculty will vote on the resolutions...