Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Chess and Whist Club last night five new members were admitted. The club passed a vote of thanks to Mr. Freeland, the principal...
...Geological Conference, the first to be organized. It was formed in 1882 as a seminary. The object of Professors Toy and Lyon was to promote intimacy among the more advanced students and to study special topics lying within the Semitic field. Three years ago, when by a vote of the faculty all such organizations not counting for degrees lost the title of seminary, the Semitic Seminary became the Semitic Conference. This year it counts for a degree and is once more a seminary. It meets once a week. Its social side has been abolished. The work for the year...
...Sanders Theatre January 14, 1892. The debaters were, for Yale, R. R. Upton, W. E. Thoms and W. P. Aiken; for Harvard, G. P. Costigan, Jr., R. C. Surbridge and A. P Stone. The subject was: "Resolved, That a young man, casting his first ballot in 1892, should vote for the nominees of the Democratic party." No decision was rendered...
...Thwaits, the latter of whom took the place of P. G. Parsons, met two from the Yale Union in debate at Newport, on the invitation and under the auspices of the Unity Club. The question debated was: "Resolved, that United States Senators should be elected by the direct vote of the people." The Yale speakers were L. A. Welles, who was last year president of the Yale Union, and W. E. Thoms, who has represented Yale on the regular Harvard-Yale debates. This was in no sense a competitive debate between the two universities. These two members of the Wendell...
...Voted, That in case the president and fellows of Harvard College accept the powers conferred by the foregoing vote, the said president and fellows be requested to empower the president of Harvard University to countersign the diplomas of this corporation and to affix the seal of Harvard University to said diplomas...