Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arts - that department which the young lady wanted to enter - is opposed to the scheme, At a joint meeting of the two faculties to consider the advisability of admitting women to the collegiate departments of the university, it was carried in the affirmative by a majority of one vote. The board of trustees afterwards refused to sanction this, with the proviso that women would be admitted when a special department was made ready for them. The secretary of the faculty of arts, Professor Jackson, delivered an elaborate argument against co-education, covering all the points very fully It has since...
...much new was brought forward. The secret ballot taken before the debate resulted 33 against the present system, 27 in favor of it. After the appointed disputants had opened the debate a ballot was taken resulting 20 in favor and 33 against the system, and the final vote of the house was 12 in favor and 22 against...
...education is in vogue at Michigan, as at most Western colleges, and if a vote were taken of the male students, it is possible that a majority would be found in its favor; but the minority would be a class whose opinions are entitled to respect. A better class of ladies has been in attendance the last few years, and the institution has been gaining in favor. The Chronicle generally opposes co-education, and (perhaps for no other reason) the Argonaut favors...
...recent election of a Memorial director from the Scientific School, only four men voted; but judging from the fact that there were seven names on the list of candidates, we can fairly presume that there are at least seven scientific men in the hall. Supposing, then, that there are but seven scientific men in the hall, it seems unfair that they should be entitled to a director while the usual ratio is one director for seventy-five men. We should imagine that some plan could be devised by which these men could vote with the college classes and thus bring...
Word comes from Amherst that there is a strong chance of the recent vote of the faculty, in regard to inter-collegiate sports, being rescinded. The college world cannot but be pleased with the news. The carrying out of such a scheme, as that proposed by the Amherst faculty, could hardly have any other result than the total destruction of all athletic sports in the college...