Word: votes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evidence against Ames. Princeton objected on a point of order as the affidavit had been questioned before it had been received. The chair sustained Mr. Leeds, but was overruled by Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, the delegate from the latter college taking two hours to cast the deciding vote. Harvard offered to waive all technicalities and to produce for oral examination the four Harvard men, Dean, Cranston, Stickney and Upton, who were on hand to answer Princeton's protest, provided that Princeton would do the same with Ames. Princeton refused, resting her decision on the point of order, even...
...laws against bribery are greatly strained at each presidential election owing to the system of an electoral college, in which at present one doubtful state, New York, casts the deciding vote. Bribery naturally is the order of the day in such a state of affairs, and the only remedy is to do away with the electoral college and to substitute some other system of election: say a division of electoral votes in each state according to the number of votes cast by each party...
...social meeting of the Board of Overseers was held at 50 State street, with the Hon. Leverett Saltonslall in the chair, owing to the absence of the president. The purpose of the meeting was to consider the acts of the president and fellows at a recent meeting. A vote was taken and it resulted in favor of the acts which are as follows...
...pass over the contemptible way in which the writer of this pamphlet compares the political opinions of President Eliot to those of a well-known prize-fighter; but I wish to emphasize the meanness of trying to influence the vote of whatever voters there may be among the students here, by a dastardly attack upon a president of whom we all, whatever our political opinions, are justly proud...
...introduced the question for the affirmative. His principal idea was to show the rapid downfall of the republican and the steady rise in power of the democratic party. The republican platform he considered under three heads: civil service, pensions and tariff. He closed his argument by urging all to vote for Russell if they wished for good government...