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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College was held at 50 State Street yesterday morning at eleven o'clock. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their vote reappointing Frank William Taussig, Ph. D., assistant professor in political economy for five years, from Sept. 1, 1891; Frank Brewster, L. L. B., instructor in the peculiarities of Massachusetts law and practice for 1891-92, and appointing Harold Clarence Ernst, M. D., assistant professor of bacteriology for five years, from Sept. 1, 1891; Henry Fiske Leonard, M. D., M. D. V., clinical lecturer...
...Party adlesion tends to purify politics; under a strict party vote. - (a) Deals would be eliminated. - (b) Bribery would be less frequent. - (c) Factional strife would be less common. - (d) Conscientious men more influential when in than when out of a party; H. H. Darling, Harvard Monthly...
...connection with today's election it may be interesting to examine the qualifications necessary for a student to vote. Any citizen who wishes to cast his ballot must register (registration for this year closed a week ago Saturday), and must have paid some state or county tax, assessed upon him in any part of the commonwealth within two years of election day. He must also possess a domicil in the city or town where he wishes to vote. Whether students posses such a domicil in Cambridge or not is a question which has been little understood, though the law seems...
...question, therefore, whether one residing at a place where there is a public literary institution, for the purposes of education, and who is in other respects qualified by the constitution to vote, has a right to vote there, will depend on the question whether he has a domicil there. The question, what place is any person's domicil, or place of abode, is a question of fact. Certain maxims on this subject we consider to be well settled. These are that every person has a domicil somewhere, and no person can have more than one domicil at the same time...
...allowed to do this was approved by the city of Cambridge, and then, as was said before, the Electric Light Company protested, and called for a second hearing. The hearing was granted, and both parties were represented by counsels. The decision was a very close one, the vote standing 5 to 4 in favor of the Electric Light Company. As the possibility of having all the buildings lighted by one central plant is thus for the present destroyed, and as it would require six separate plants to do all the lighting without running wires across the streets, the matter...