Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some extremely important work on philology. The Harpers have published for him a Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament. This is based on Grimm's Wilke's Clavis Novi Testamenti, which he has translated, revised and enlarged. This book appeared simultaneously in New York and London. By a vote of the president and fellows, Professor Thayer was authorized to undertake the supervision of the memorial edition of the Greek lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine periods, by the late E. A. Sophocles. This is a volume of over twelve hundred pages. Professor J. B. Greenough has edited a volume...
...should be tried by the Supreme Court." The present method, said he, of deciding contested elections, although practicable in the early days of the Republic, is now bungling and unjust. Of the cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters have been adjudged according to the political views of the votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue in favor of the negative. He asserted that to carry the proposed change into effect it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which would be at once difficult and dangerous. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach...
...Masonic Fair in New York, the oil portrait of Charles Dickens to be given by vote to the most popular newspaper was awarded to Town Topics. What taste the Masons have...
...HOLDER, JR., Secretary.JANITOR WANTED.- On the 15th inst., by a previous vote of the Executive Committee of the Boat Club, the janitor of the boat house was discharged. A new man is wanted-one who has not been in the employ of any boat club preferred-who can keep his opinions to himself and make himself generally useful-just as the former janitor did. I desire to ask the men in college to co-operate with me in a proposed attempt to get a first-class man, by sending to me the names and address of any persons known...
...following men spoke from the floor: Affirmative-Williams, '88; Page, '88; Green, '89. Negative-Osborn, L. S.; Pinkham. L. S.; Coulson, Sp.; Gay, '88; Naumburg, '89; Bates, '90; Stebbins, '90; Beckwith, Sp. The vote on the merits of the question was: Affirmative, 12; negative, 15. On the merits of the debate by principal disputants: Affirmative, 4; negative, 27. On the merits of the debate as a whole: Affirmative 5; negative...