Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vote of the directors of the Dining Association, by which the gallery in Memorial Hall will be closed on Thursday afternoons is pretty sure to provoke some discussion. Not a few people have questioned seriously the propriety of permitting a throng of curious visitors to crowd the gallery for the purpose of watching students at their meals, and there are some men in the hall who we know would like to see the gallery closed for all time, disturbance or no disturbance. We believe, however, that this is taking an extreme view of the case. Provided there be no misconduct...
...political institutions are in danger. - (a) Management in the hands of bad men, e.g., Quay, Gorman. - (b) Spoils system. - (c) Bribery: Jenks in Century, Oct. 1892; F. J. Stimson, Address on Bribery. - (d) Excessive representation of ignorance.: small western states. - (e) Foreign vote: Pol. Sci. Q., IX, 426 (Sept...
...rights of the individual are in danger. - (a) Suppression of the vote: Hart, Essays on Government, p. 32. - (b) Lynching: Forum XVI, 300 (Nov. 1893). - (c) Oppression by legal authorities: Lexow testimony. - (d) Excessive organization...
About twenty-five men were present last evening to hear the report of the committee appointed to draw up a constitution for a Harvard Press Association. The question of the advisability of the Press Association was again raised and a motion against it was lost by a vote of thirteen to eleven. The constitution was then adopted by sections, and the chairman of the committee was authorized to call a meeting for the election of officers...
After referring with gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...