Word: voting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...view of the great interest and importance of the next Presidential election, we would earnestly impress upon those of our readers who have just come of age, or who will do so before November, the duty of qualifying themselves to vote at an election in which the best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must...
...have bad but a few days' experience of the early-hour system, and already complaints are heard about what before was anticipated as sure to bring inconvenience. The vote is cast, but before we relapse into "humble acquiescent silence," we would suggest how one cause of complaint might be done away with, bringing little or no inconvenience to the domestic economy of Memorial Hall. At present lunch is from half past twelve to half past one; the students who come out of recitation at twelve are obliged to waste a half-hour before lunch, or at least to employ such...
ACCORDING to the law of New Hampshire, persons residing in a place for the purpose of obtaining an education have no right to vote. This regulation falls particularly severely upon Dartmouth students, and the Dartmouth devotes a column to an assertion of the rights of undergraduates, which is so ardent that it recalls the stirring manifestos...
...present Senior class, by their vote to abolish the Chaplaincy, made one change in the order of exercises on Class Day. Whether this was done wisely or not, it is not my purpose to discuss, but now that the door is open for reforms, are there not other changes that can well be made, and other alterations incidental to the management of the affairs of the graduating classes, which could be made advantageously...
...issue we made some remarks concerning the Registrar, for which we wish to apologize publicly, as we have already done privately. The remarks were caused by a misapprehension for which the Faculty -by their leave -were partially responsible. The facts of the case are these: A year ago a vote was passed by the Faculty, that undergraduates should not be informed of the number of absences from recitations, etc., with which they were charged on the secretary's books, until they were summoned to receive the penalties imposed for such absences. Accordingly the Registrar, in the proper performance...