Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vote on the merits of the question stood: aff., 8; neg., 15; on the skill of the principal disputants: aff., 12; neg., 29; on the debate as a whole...
...debate languished, till a motion of Mr. Duncan's, amended by Mr. Hunnewell, that a committee of five should confer with old oarsmen and report at a future meeting, was voted down. An informal vote was taken on the question of admitting Yale; the secretary appointed Messrs. Tyson, Stout, Woods and Garrison, tellers: yeas, 85; nays. 45. The debate now became very animated, and somewhat tiresome; Messrs. Duncan, Lund, Hutchinson, Lund, Fairbanks, and Tilton sustaining the affirmative side of the argument, and Messrs. Hunnewell, Crowninshield and Post, the negative...
...Board of Overseers have agreed with the President and Fellows in the amendment to the third statute of the university by striking out the words "and is required to give bonds for the faithful performance of his duty." They have also approved the vote to increase the salary of the treasurer from $4,000 to $5,000 per annum, and have also approved the vote granting the President leave of absence from January 15 to October...
...hour examination in N. H. 4 was deferred by a vote of the class from the week before Christmas until about two weeks before the mid-years...
...They took possession of the university theatre, and delivered addresses and recited poems of their own with as much gravity and dignity as Mr. Lowell or Mr. Holmes. The traditions of American life sink deep, and the pattern is everywhere the same. Two orators and two poets, chosen by vote of the undergraduates themselves, in turn commemorated the glories of Harvard, criticized its system, and exhorted to emulation of its past. The most perfect decorum prevailed; in fact any one who had witnessed the pandemonium of the Oxford Encaenia could not fail to marvel that these things could...