Word: voting
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...governor as having been slighted, and it will be asserted that the college has set itself up above the wisdom of the people. It will be used as an argument to favor the governor's reelection and to injure the college. But we fancy that the governor's vote will not be increased nor the college hurt to any appreciable extent by the act of yesterday. Nobody ever supposed that the authorities of Harvard College regarded his excellency as a fit man for governor, and they certainly deserve credit rather than denunciation for expressing their minds. - [Advertiser...
Perhaps, hereafter, Harvard College will be good enough to tell the people of Massachusetts whom to vote for for governor. - [New York Graphic.] Cart before the horse, as usual. Perhaps the people will be good enough not to insist upon having their favorites LL. D - d by Harvard. The college has its "rights as well as the people." [Republican...
Opinion as to the wisdom of the policy of the board of overseers in refusing to confer the customary degree upon Governor Butler is at present much divided. But, as to Butler's conduct since the vote of the board was announced, there can be no difference of opinion. That he should impute the meanest of motives to his opponents, and should indulge in the most scurrilous language in relation to their action, is by no means surprising nor unexpected when we consider the notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after...
...meeting of the board of overseers Tuesday it was voted to concur with the president and fellows in re-appointing as clinical instructors in the Dental School for 1883-84, Timothy O. Loveland, D. M. D., Charles Wilson, D. M. D., Albert B. Jewell, D. M. D., Eugene H. Smith, D. M. D., Edward C. Briggs, D. M. D.; re-appointing for the ensuing academic year, George F. Grant, D. M. D., demonstrator in mechanical industry; Virgil C. Pond, D. M. D., demonstrator in operatic dentistry; Joseph W. Warren, M. D., instructor in oral pathology and anatomy; Frank W. Taussig...
After a session of four hours' duration the board of overseers of Harvard College yesterday refused to concur with the corporation in conferring the degree of LL.D. upon His Excellency Governor Butler. The corporation recommended that the honor be voted, but by a yea and nay vote of 11 to 15, the board of overseers refused to concur. The members voted as follows...