Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst sophomores at a recent class meeting voted to allow the freshmen to carry canes if they chose. and not to molest them in any way. This vote meets with the most cordial approval of the faculty, and President Seelye expressed himself highly gratified that the sophomore class of Amherst College should take the initiatory step toward a reform in the old and barbarous custom of hazing freshmen. The president considers the action as an outcome of the present system of government practised there, and thinks that the other colleges will follow the precedent established by the class...
...Francis M. Weld of New York received the highest vote which has ever yet been cast by mail for a candidate for overseer of Harvard College, and in it may be found a substantial proof of the hearty acquiescence of the alumni in the innovation of having non-resident alumni...
...meeting of the board of directors of Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon an auditing committee was elected consisting of the following named gentlemen: Messrs. Merriam, McIntire and Hatch. It was voted to raise the auditor's salary from $850 to $1000 per annum. After considerable discussion a unanimous vote was passed requesting the corporation to secure a new steward for the association for the ensuing year as soon as possible...
...learn that the directors of Memorial Hall have at last formally requested the corporation to secure a new steward for the association for the ensuing year. This is by no means a repetition of the vote passed last spring advising the corporation that a change in the management might be advisable, but the directors have gone a step further and have given their opinion that a new steward ought to be secured at once. We feel sure that their decision will be received pleasure by the great majority of the boarders at the hall, for although during the past...
...unpopularity of their act. They had a simple duty to perform, and they performed it; and to suppose that the college is to lose its hold upon the public regard because the gentlemen in charge of its affairs do not hold its honors so lightly as to vote to bestow them where they are undeserved, is an absurdity. "Popularity" which is to be lost in this way is better lost than gained. Matters have not yet come to such a pass in Massachusetts that an individual or an institution will lose anything by adherence to correct and consistent principles...