Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course Phil. - will recall one of the illustrations used concerning an apple orchard of heroic times, the keeper of which Adam, fell from grace because of one of the apples. Yesterday on account of the juice of similar apples, another Adam had received another fall. The Cambridge vote of yesterday was the cause of the Schute...
While on the train after the University of Pennsylvania game, the 'varsity foot-ball team elected the captain for the coming year. Mr. Holden, '88 was chosen by a unanimous vote...
...Union held a debate in Boylston Hall last evening. Question: "Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition as a method of dealing with intemperance." Regular disputants: affirmative, P. Robinson, L. S., W. Magee, '89; negative, E. Platt, '88, A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the merits of the question was, affirmative 17: negative, 6. On the merits of the argument of the principal disputants, affirmative 20; negative 11. The debate was the most spirited known in the Union for a long time, and many spoke from the floor...
...Winthrop spoke with fervor of the festivities of fifty years ago, and eulogized "that young Henry Vane who presided over the little General Court of Massachusetts as Governor of the Commonwealth in that year, 1636, at the time the vote was passed endowing and founding and establishing this college...
...country calls for additional restrictions upon immigration." On the affirmative Messes. Chenowith '88, and Heseltine, '88, were the principal disputants against Messrs. Shoemaker, '89, and Proctor, '89, on the negative. After these gentlemen had finished, the debate was thrown open to the house and interesting discussions ensued. The vote taken was as follows: On the merits of the question, affirmative, 29; negative, 14; on the arguments of the principal disputants, affirmative, 21; negative, 45; and on the debate as a whole, affirmative, 17; negative...