Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CRIMSON of March 26th contains a communication from Irving Ruland '89 criticizing the Faculty's vote and Captain Brewer's letter. In the communication the writer after quoting a passage from the New York Sun makes the statement, "Yale, as usual, is our undoing...
...letter in your paper from Mr. Arthur Brewer on the subject of the last action of the Faculty on the question of intercollegiate football, a copy of which letter appeared in a New York daily. The commendable spirit which Mr. Brewer shows in advising quiet acquiescence in the vote of the Faculty, on the ground that age is wise and youth is foolish, is a new and strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life of the sport of football makes it desirable...
...excellent judgment, should be snatched away from them. The proceeding strikes me as a most extraordinary one; but a gentleman who is more familiar with the kind of influences that move Faculties, assures me that the following clipping furnishes an adequate explanation (God save the mark!) of the recent vote...
...university had died, not one allusion was made to his memory or his great learning. He concluded his speech with a statement that he left that dinner ashamed that he was a Yale man. These remarks had such an influence on the members of the Faculty present that this vote was immediately passed. - Cambridge despatch...
...protest was entered against Worcester high school, on the ground that it was really two schools, and thus ineligible to membership in the association. It was, however, decided, by a vote of 8 to 5, not to allow this protest...