Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the overseers on Wednesday the question of admitting women to the Harvard Medical School was discussed and voted upon. A report on the subject was presented from a special committee, embodying the views of the faculty of the school: "The faculty," says the Advertiser's report of the meeting, "while making no opposition to the medical education of women in general, decidedly oppose it in the Harvard Medical School. The school, they say, was founded for the medical education of men, and has been endowed and sustained for that purpose-a purpose which would be seriously perverted...
...vote, which may fairly be regarded as significant of the attitude of members of the board of overseers towards many similar propositions as well, stood: Yea-William Amory, William C. Endicott, Richard M. Hodges, Edward W. Hooper, Theodore Lyman, Robert M. Morse, Jr., Henry W. Paine, Francis E. Parker, Le Baron Russell, Stephen Salisbury, Leverett Saltonstall, Robert D. Smith-12. Nay-Phillips Brooks, James Freeman Clarke, Charles W. Elliot, Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with...
...hoped that the coming election of officers for the Dining Association will call forth a full and well-considered vote from the boarders at the hall. As the vice-president of the association has stated, the hall is necessarily only an experiment for the rest of the year, and therefore, it is especially incumbent upon all present members to provide for the success of this experiment as far as possible by making a judicious choice in this coming election for the offices of president and vice-president. It is admitted, indeed, that the officers of the association possess little power...
...business meetings of our Athletic Association are attended by but few students, and the elections are utterly without interest to the majority of students, while the elections of officers in the Lecture Association are attended by crowds, and every man's vote is known for weeks in advance...
...Resolved, That in consideration of the fact that the estimated cost of board for March falls below $5, and that the directors will be acting in conformity with the suggestions of the committee of fifty in repealing the vote which provided that the hall should be closed on March 22d, therefore such vote is hereby repealed...