Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first business before the Union last night, after the meeting had been called to order by President Merriam, was the debate on the question. Resolved: - "That the percentage system of marking in vogue at Harvard should be abolished." The vote on the merits of the question resulted in 29 votes for the affirmative, and 20 for the negative. The principal disputants on the affirmative were, G. P. Knapp, '87, and H. Page, '88; on the negative, H. B. Hutchins, '86, and I. H. Bronson, Sp. The negative gained the victory on the skill of argument by a vote...
...following gentlemen spoke from the floor: Affirmative, A. T. Perkins, '87; Platt, '88; Griffing, '89; Hesseltine, '88; negative, Griffing, '88; Rich, '87; Mahany, '88; Proctor, '89; Hobson, '86; Sternbergh, '87; Stedman, '87; Furber, '87. The vote on the debate as a whole stood, affirmative, 12; negative, 21. The question for the next debate is: Resolved, That the coinage of the Bland Silver Dollar should be discontinued...
...Hesseltine, '88, G. D. Chase, J. H. Proctor, G. A. Reisner, and E. E. Shoemaker, '89. The next business in order was the election of officers. Mr. Merriam, declining a re-election to the office of president, G. P. F. Hobson, '86, was elected to that office. A vote of thanks was unanimously extended to the retiring president. R. B. Mahany, '88, was elected vice-president, and G. P. Furber, '87, secretary and treasurer. The meeting then adjourned...
FOOT-BALL. Those entitled to vote are reminded that the election of a foot-ball captain for 1886 takes place to-day from 2 to 4 p.m. in 5 Little's. It is hoped that men will attend this election as well as they attended the election held last Monday...
...meeting of the foot-ball men of the college, called yesterday for the purpose of electing a captain for the university team, no candidate was elected, no one receiving a majority of the votes cast. A second meeting will be held Thursday, at which, it is hoped, an election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...