Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...special meeting of the Board of Overseers was held yesterday morning at 50 State street. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their vote appointing Henry Lee '36, William Sturgis Bigelow '71, and Arthur Astor Carey '79, Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year from January 1st, '98. The committees in the Board of Overseers were also made up for the year 1898. The only new committee was the committee to visit the Gray Herbarium, composed of Francis L. Higginson '63, F. H. Peabody, Charles F. Sprague '79, George G. Kennedy '64, George...
...team of three speakers and an alternate will be chesen from these ten men at the next trial, which will be held on December 13. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That United States Senators should be elected by popular vote." The debate with the Sophomore Club will come on January 10, and will be on the same question...
Hitherto, at the approach of Senior class election, the political managers of the societies have arranged a caucus meeting in their respective houses, to pledge their senior members to support a certain slate. All participants in the caucus are considered in honor bound to vote for a man for that particular office for which he is slated, and for no other. This slate is generally labelled "Representative Ticket"; it does represent an immense amount of intersociety diplomacy, but at least two thirds of the class have had no voice in arranging it. The pledge supporters of the slate generally constitute...
...main purposes are embodied in the plan. First it is intended to provide a means of publishing before the election names of all men nominated and supported by a fixed number of signatures. Secondly, it is proposed to vote according to the Australian ballot system, the place of voting being kept open for a number of hours during the day. The objects of both measures are, to place all men in the class upon a more equal footing (irrespective of organization), than has been the case in the past, and furthermore to obtain a larger vote...
...more subject to abuse than use. It has frequently happened just as it happened last year, that an absent man has been nominated facetiously by men who did not intend to support him,- being already pledged to another candidate,- but who simply utilized the absentee to divide the unpledged vote of an opponent dangerous to the candidate they were actually supporting...