Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...special meeting of the Harvard overseers was held yesterday. President Eliot presented the vote of the president and fellows appointing Manuel J. Drennan assistant professor of English for five years. There was also presented a letter from the founder of the William and Samuel Eliot scholarship, asking that graduates and special students as well as members of the four college classes may be eligible to its benefits. Reports of the committees on government and mathematics, physics and chemistry, were presented and referred. The secretary offered a resolution that a professor emeritus is neither an officer of instruction nor government...
...Halbert. The secret ballot on the question was in the affirmative. The ballot on the merits of the debate was in favor of the negative. The debate was then thrown open to the house, and a very sharp discussion showed the manifest interest of all present. The final vote was in favor of the affirmative. It was voted to have another debate in two weeks from Monday, and that the rooms shall be kept open every Monday evening, beginning next week...
...excused from attendance. Students are allowed "cuts" to the number of one-fourth of the total number of exercises. If this limit is exceeded, the student, ipso facto, ceases to be a candidate for a degree, and can only be excused from this penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more...
These articles may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the directors and treasurer, approved by the president, or by a three-quarters vote without his approval; but any such amendment shall not be binding after the next annual meeting, unless ratified by a vote of the society at that meeting. Notice of such proposed change must be published in full in the college papers, at least two weeks before the amendment is voted...
...debate of the Harvard Union last evening on the question of "Co-education at Harvard" drew forth a large attendance, and excited much spirited discussion. The first vote on the merits of the question showed the audience strongly in the negative, but the final vote after the debate was largely in the affirmative. Messrs. W. H. Baldwin and W. A. Halbert of the sophomore class were the regular disputants in the affirmative and Messrs. R. Coit, '83, and J. McDuffie on the negative. The annual reports of officers were made after the debate. The treasurer's report showed a balance...