Word: voting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...future meetings of the H. U. B. C. the voting will be done by the check-list. No one who has failed to pay his entrance-fee of $3.00 will be allowed to vote. An important meeting will be held soon to decide whether Harvard will remain longer in the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Any one whose entrance fee is not paid should communicate with the Secretary at once...
...called open election. If the non-society men sustain the action of the societies, we may look for the best results of a free-choice of the whole class. But evidently it will not be found enough, in order to secure these desirable results, to merely vote for an open election; for unless each member of the class votes in the spirit of such an election, with an eye single to class interests, nothing has been gained to Class Day itself. If an open election recommends itself to any particular element in the class, as the means simply of securing...
...sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want of confidence ought to bring into their places men who are better fitted to execute the opinions of the College. If we demanded reports with some degree of frequency and regularity, asking explanations whenever they are necessary, and were not afraid to speak above a whisper at a meeting...
ABOUT a year ago the seats on Jarvis Field were taken down, in accordance with a vote of the Corporation, and all athletic associations were at the same time forbidden to sell tickets to any matches or sports which might take place upon the field. It was of course necessary to dispose of the seats at once, and the Base-Ball Club, to which they belonged, was obliged to part with them for $25, - less than a quarter, if we are not mistaken, of their original cost...
...vote of the Memorial Dining-Hall Directors, each table is to choose itself a head, whose duties are to receive any complaints or suggestions of other members in regard to fare or service, in writing, and to forward them to a committee appointed for the consideration of them. This committee is at present Messrs. Jennings, L. S. S., McDuffie, '76, and Starr...