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...Blane's letter from Paris. Turning to Yale, we find there 70 Republicans and 13 Democrats. No expression of preferences for individuals has come to us from Yale. We may seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since 1886 the Democrats have gained 92 per cent, increasing from 13 to 25, while the Republicans have increased more in numbers, but far less in proportion, or by only...
...issues, and that, as regards the tariff, the leaven of reform is doing good work. Thus, at Columbia, we find fifteen Republicans and fifteen protectionists. That this parity of numbers is merely a coincidence, however, appears from the fact that, although there were only eight Democrats represented in the vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats in the proportion of forty-two to thirteen. This too, without counting eleven who shrink from...
Notice has been given by the Board of Overseers of Harvard College that an election of Overseers by the Alumni of said college qualified to vote therefore by chaper 173 of the Statutes of the Commonwealth, passed in the year 1865, will be held on Commencement day, the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1888, in Massachusetts Hall, within the college yard, for the choice of five Overseers, to be elected for the term of six years, to supply the place of the class which goes out of office at the close of said Commencement day. One Overseer...
...Legislative Act of 1865, "such persons as have received from the college a degree of Bachelor of Arts, or Master of Arts, or any honorary degree," are entitled to vote for Overseers; "provided however, that no member of the Corporation, and no officer of government of instruction in said college shall be eligible as an Overseer or entitled to vote in the election of Overseers; and, provided further, that no person who has received from said college the degree of Bachelor of Arts shall be entitled to vote for Overseers before the fifth annual election after the graduation...
...CRIMSON has a report of the vote of the faculty, but at the request of the college authorities will not publish it till some definite action is taken by the Board of Overseers...