Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board of overseers, at its last meeting, consented to the vote of the president and fellows, appointing Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy...
...meeting yesterday the Board of Overseers concurred with the president and fellows in the following appointments: F. A. Walker, lecturer on the tenure of land; G. Stanley Hall, lecturer on pedagogy; and C. P. Parker instructor in Greek and Latin for the current academic year. The board voted that it is not at present expedient to consent to the vote of the president and fellows to assign certain scholarships to special students...
...House passed the Pendleton civil-service reform bill yesterday in the precise form in which it passed the Senate, by a vote...
...writer attributes this change to the introduction of the elective system of which he gives a brief description. He mentions as a fact not well known that on a recent attempt to make the entire curriculum elective, the vote was nearly a tie although the motion was lost...
General Logan concluded his speech in the Senate yesterday in opposition to the Fitz John Porter relief bill. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill was defeated by a vote...