Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today the College casts its vote. Each class chooses its officers and representatives for the Student Council; in short it is Harvard's Election...
...vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of June 2, 1914, the Committee on Admission were authorized to publish each year after the September examinations a list of those candidates for admission who passed their examinations with high grades, together with the names of the schools in which they received their training and the titles of any scholarships they may have received because of merit...
...only essence it is in no way concerned with whom the different classes elect. It has no controlling vote such as the Prussian delegates have in the German Bundesrath; it neither elects its own ticket nor canvasses for votes. It is the same machinery as is behind any municipal or national elections; which knows nothing beyond the number of ballots to be printed, the places where the elections should be held, and the proper tabulating of the votes...
...scant gratitude. For over a quarter of a century he has been active in French politics, but on each of the three occasions when he was made prime minister, his stay in office was embittered by the virulent opposition of the extreme radicals, who on one occasion passed a vote of confidence in his successor upon his announcing identically the same program as the day before had caused M. Ribot's defeat. But in spite of such treatment he has been willing to perform every service in his power for the good of the country...
...special vote of thanks was passed by the corporation to members of the French war commission for their aid in getting a battery of seventy-five millimeter guns for use of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Yale. It had been feared that no guns at all would be available, since the War Department had said that no American pieces could be spared...