Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...negro vote is suppressed. (a) It is natural that it should be suppressed. (b) It is in fact suppressed:- Appeal to Caesar, pp 68-87; Forum. Dec, 1887, Vol. 4, No. 4. pp 376-387; N. A. Rev., March 1879, Vol. 128, pp 227, 242, 282; Contemp. Rev. Vol. 53, pp 443; Cable's Silent South passim...
...Technology senior tried to vote on Tuesday in ward 11 of Boston, but was challenged at the polls, and when he deposited his ballot was arrested and brought before the United States commissioner. The student claimed that he was of age and entitled to vote, and was discharged, pending an investigation. It is said that several others had been informed by a politician that they had a right to vote, and were intending to cast their ballots also, but were deterred by the arrest of their companion...
...three questions to be submitted at he Harvard Union this evening are: Resolved, That the President of the United States should be elected directly by a majority vote of the people. Resolved, That political campaigns, as at present conducted, are demoralizing. Resolved, That Canada should be annexed to the United States...
...vote of the Committee on the regulation of Athletics forbidding the Yale-Harvard game to be played at New York will doubtless cause many men in the college disappointment and even serious inconvenience. Nevertheless we cannot doubt that the action of the committee is for the best interests of Harvard athletics There are many things that make it desirable for the game to be played in New York; at the same time there are very serious objections to the plan. The question is a hard one to decide, and doubtless many men will question whether the Athletic Committee has taken...
...following is the formal vote passed by the Committee on the Regulations of Athletic Sports...