Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the usual custom the election of the Yale Lit. board took place a few days ago. After considerable preliminary discussion, a vote was taken which resulted in the election of Messrs. Crosby, Sage, Colton, and Hurd, and in a tie between Messrs. Opdyke and Beckford. After another ballot with a like result the matter was left pending for settlement till some future...
...Boston Athletic Club has admitted one hundred new members, thereby increasing its membership to 1500. This is the limit, and no more applicants can be admitted without a special vote of the club...
There are but two members of the senior class at Hamilton who cannot vote...
...doing. But there are other influences which have been busy working the same great evolution. The struggle which the Negro has had to gain the franchise has had great educational influence upon him, and has developed him politically and socially. Human nature has asserted itself and the black vote is slowly dividing; out of these political distinctions, social ones are growing. Then, too, the contact of the Negro with the white races has furnished reconstructive forces which have done much in developing the Negro character. An important influence of the education of the Negro is found in the spur which...
...preliminary vote on the merits of the question resulted-affirmative, 19; negative, 20; the vote on the merits of the leading disputants-affirmative, 33; negative, 16; vote on the debate as a whole-affirmative, 8; negative...