Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Working men with the right to vote can with difficulty amend a state constitution; working women to whom factory conditions are a matter of life and death have no influence whatsoever. It is for this reason, for the sake of justice, which they find they can obtain in no other way, that women want suffrage...
...This vote was passed at the request of the Library Committee, who feel it to be necessary in some way to put a stop to the taking of books. The library is run for the benefit of all students who are members of the Union, and it seems inconceivable that anyone could be so thoughtless of the rights of others as to take away a book. Yet the fact remains that annually some sixty or seventy books are removed from the shelves and are not returned...
...committee intends in the future to put into operation the penalty imposed by the vote of the Governing Board in the hope that the rights of all the students may be protected. We certainly hope that it may never be necessary to punish anyone, and that the statement of this vote will have the effect that was intended, of making all students understand the purpose of the Union library, and the fact the committee intends to make the library as widely useful as possible. W. R. CASTLE, JR., Chairman of the Library Committee...
...ahead this year widening its field of activity, it must be made up of those men who represent the entire University. If the members do not have a backing of more than a minority of their classmates, their power and prestige is proportionately reduced. A large vote today is of utmost importance to the senior class as a whole. Its attainment will depend entirely upon the individual efforts of each...
...directors of the Co-operative Society voted on Thursday to declare a dividend of 9 per cent. on the business of the past year, and this vote was confirmed by the stockholders of the society at their annual meeting yesterday. This dividend, which will amount to $18,705.30, is the largest dividend disbursement in the 29 years of the Co-operative Society's existence. It will be paid at the main store during the second week of November...