Word: voting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to commend the action taken by the authorities of Cambridge in regard to the voting of students. An impression that a student could not vote at Cambridge has previously prevailed in the University. There is no law which forbids him to choose as his voting place the town where he resides and holds property. The authorities of Cambridge have recently called the attention of students to this fact, and though it is too late now to urge registration for the coming campaign, it is nevertheless earnestly to be hoped that all students who have the privilege of voting will...
...meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, held July 8, 1878, a communication was received from the secretary of the committee of fifty graduates formally conveying Memorial Hall to them. The gift was accepted under the specified conditions, and a vote of thanks was passed...
...Class of 1878 in bidding farewell to college-life may be satisfied with the honorable record it leaves behind. To '78 we owe the restoration of Class Day with its time-hallowed associations, and also the example of an election of Class-Day representatives by a fair vote of the class, free from the dictation of societies and of packed meetings. Not only is the proud position which Harvard now holds, - a position so dear to the heart of every student, the championship both of the bat and of the oar - in a great measure due to the leaders which...
...electors are not limited, in making nominations, to the names proposed by the committee. The Overseers are required to be 'all inhabitants within the State.' No member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in the College, is eligible as an Overseer, or entitled to vote in the election. All other graduates of the College of five years' standing, and all persons not graduates who have received from the College any honorary degree, are entitled to vote." - Transcript...
...accordance with the vote passed at the O. K. dinner last year, the committee then appointed have made arrangements for a second dinner and reunion of the past and present members of the society, on Tuesday evening, April 2, 1878, at Young's Hotel, in Boston. Rev. George L. Chaney, the first president of the society, will preside. The tickets for the dinner will be $2.50 each, and they can be obtained from any of the undersigned, by personal application or by mail. If members will purchase their tickets at an early day it will greatly facilitate the efforts...