Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston city election yesterday, Mayor O'Brien was re-elected over Mr. Hart by about 1700 plurality. The vote on the liquor question resulted in favor of license by over 5,000 majority...
...question of free trade and protection will make new party lines and the contention of parties for the Negro vote will soon put an end to any unjust suppression.-Cleveland Presidential Message in Boston Record, Dec 6, 1887; "Mr. Blaine Talks," Boston Herald...
...meeting of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Association, which was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York on Saturday evening, it decided by a vote of 3 to 1 that the play of Corbin, the Yale centre-rush in the Yale-Harvard game on Thanksgving Day, was perfectly proper and in accordance with the rules of the game. The point made by Harvard was that Corbin had picked up the ball and rushed with it before another man had touched it, thereby breaking rule 29, which says that the snapper back...
Last night the Harvard Union held its usual bi-weekly meeting and in spite of the rainy weather, a fair attendance was present. The question for debate was, Resolved. That the Parochial School System is dangerous to American institutions. The vote on the merit of the question was taken. The result was, affirmative, 34; negative, 16. Mr. Platt, '88, was the first speaker for the affirmative. He contended that religion and education should be kept free from each other. Education belongs alone to the State and does not concern the church. If the parochial school system were adopted, the influence...
There were a number of speakers from the floor. The vote on merits of argument was: Affirmative, 25; negative, 26. The question for debate at the next meeting is: "Resolved, that the Land Tax of Henry George should be adopted...