Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the class, past and present, who are now candidates for the degree of A. B., will be allowed to vote, and will be eligible for office...
...meeting of the Union last evening the liquor question was discussed. The vote on the merits of the question was 37 for Maine law and 46 for the Massachusetts. The vote on the merits of the argument of the principal disputants stood 45 to 40. The vote on the merits of the whole argument stood 37 to 26. The following gentlemen spoke: Merriam, Wilson, Prentiss, McDuffie, McArthur, Gifford, Barnes, Richardson, Carrier, Libby, Conant, Eaton, Sanders. After the debate, Mr. Hansin brought forward resolutions on the death of Greenough Thayer, which were adopted. Mr. Eaton suggested that instead of the meeting...
...power of levying troops from the contingents of the States represented in the confederation. With regard to the navy his power is unlimited. The German parliament consists of two bodies, the Seichstag corresponding to our House of Representatives and the Bundesrath to our Senate. Fifty-eight votes are cast in the Bundesrath, which are distributed among the different States in proportion to their size. The members do not vote as in this country according to their personal desire, but as they are instructed by the government of the State which they represent. Accordingly members from the same State never vote...
...ablest advocate of the Declaration of Independence during the three days debate in congress. He was supposed to have greatly hastened business by the unparalleled oratorical outburst of; "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my heart and my hand to this vote...
...following from the Advertiser will be of interest: "The students of Bowdoin College have voted to accept a proposition of the faculty, which, to a large extent, places in the hands of the students the discipline of the men. A jury, composed of one representative from each class, one from each intercollegiate society, and one from non-society students, is to be the tribunal which offenders will face. The president of the college is to bear to the jury the relation substantially of a judge in court, ruling upon questions of jurisdiction and the validity of decisions. Penalties...