Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports, better represented in the top control body of the H.A.A. However, welcome are basketball's promotion and the prospects for monthly meetings, they are not connected with the real problem before Mr. Bingham. Lest the ten dollar compulsory fee become taxation without representation, two new groups need a vote in the all-high Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Though the Student Council thumps loudly for the nomination of two of its members to the Committee, the house sports should not be overlooked, particularly in view of their growth when watered by the new monies. It is significant...
...opportunity Mr. Bingham reiterates his intention to discourage big-time sports in favor of intramurals, and to catch up to Yale's record of 55 per cent of the students on house teams. When this hope becomes a reality, it will be clearly necessary to give average students a vote in the supreme court. It may prove an important help to the evolution of the Student Council's recommendations to broaden undergraduate representation while the fat is on the fire...
Knowing the importance of the friendship of the gentleman at Warm Springs, he gave particular praise to the provisions of the Philippine Constitution which denies the Philippine Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional without a two-thirds vote, which requires justices to retire at 70. Said he: "There is no possibility in the Philippines for any court to say that if we pass an act regulating the number of hours of labor or prohibiting the use of child labor, or other measures of this nature, that the court will declare the action of the Legislature unconstitutional...
...trend in the direction of such a differentiation of preparation through the granting of course reduction to high honors candidates and by the greater amount of time and attention given to those students who give evidence of profiting most from a good deal of independent work. The recent vote of the Faculty Council, therefore, merely gives formal recognition to a development which has been going on for a number of years...
...deciding vote was cast by Senator Joseph A. Langone who is thought to be against the Bill and trying to place the burden of the decision on Governor Hurley...