Word: voting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...held on Tuesday last, and Mr. Wetmore, '75, and Mr. Otis, L. S. S., were appointed to meet the delegates of Yale at New London, on December 15, to arrange the preliminaries of the Yale and Harvard race. The delegates were instructed to vote for Springfield as the place, and the latter part of June as the time for the regatta. No further instructions were given the delegates, but the Executive Committee reserves to itself the power of vetoing any decisions which meet with disapproval...
...they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office. It is safe to say that the majority are forced to accept one of two alternatives, - to vote for a candidate with whom they are personally unacquainted, and of whose merits they know only from the testimony of others; or to back steadily the man of their acquaintance who appears to them to be best fitted for the place. As each man's acquaintance is different from that...
...benefit to our boating interests. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. would do well to consider, with a view to its adoption here, a plan which is in operation at Columbia, by which a graduate who subscribes annually to the crew is entitled to a vote at boating meetings and to certain other privileges...
OXFORD has vanquished Cambridge in foot-ball. There are 2, 537 students in the University of Cambridge. The Oxford Union decided against female suffrage by a vote of 51 to 17. In Cambridge, That in case of any decided action on the part of Russia and Austria with regard to the partition or reconstruction of Turkey, it is a paramount and national necessity for England to take possession of the Suez Canal," was decided by a vote of 40 to 2; the only speaker against being Mustafa Ben Yusaf...
...piece of paper the magic sentence, "This is a dollar," to make that hitherto useless paper as valuable a measure of value and medium of exchange as the standard dollar of coin. It is in something of the same spirit that successive classes in Harvard College have voted "that the office of chaplain shall be considered as of more importance than before," and by this vote men of character and ability have been induced to accept an office which had been mocked by the nomination of unworthy candidates. Nevertheless, no permanent dignity has been added to the office...