Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hurt Yale as much as any other college. J. P. Lee suggested that the rules should be amended so as to provide that a man should not be allowed to compete until he had been in college a year The question of adopting the rule was then put to vote with the following result...
...impose the same restrictions upon Harvard. She apparently intends, then, to arrange baseball games with undergraduate teams only. This involves a principle which ought consistently to apply to other forms of athletics. But we know that the various teams at the inter-collegiate meeting this spring will, by a vote of the association, be teams composed in part of graduates. Will Princeton, then, following her present line of argument, drop out of the intercollegiate games and thus prove conclusively the sincerity of her reasoning; or will it be found that the principle varies with the form of athletics to which...
...meeting last evening an attempt was made to declare the amendment unconstitutional by refusing to accept the minutes of the last meeting including the amendment. The president of the Union ruled that even if the minutes were not accepted, the amendment to the constitution would stand. The vote was taken, the part of the minutes including the amendment was rejected...
This action, it will be remembered, was brought about by the vote of the university mass meeting on Feb. 10. The committee will have till Jan. 1. 1894, in which to draft the constitutions, when they must present them to the university for acceptance. The names of the constitutional committee, as appointed, are as follows...
...result of the Harvard Union on Friday came to us too late for anything more than a mere statement of what had happened. We cannot but feel that, on the whole, the vote to disband and reorganize on totally different principles was a wise measure. It comes as a rather hard blow to certain members of the Union, to all in fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard...