Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unusually large audience listened to the debate at the Harvard Union last night. The subject was, "Resolved: That Russian Nihilism is justifiable." The vote on the merits of the question resulted in 67 votes for the affirmative and 43 for the negative. The following gentlemen spoke as principal disputants, affirmative, A. B. Houghton, '86, and E. J. Rich, '87; negative, A. C. Boyden, '86, and J. M. Merriam, '86. The skill in argument was decided in favor of the negative by a vote...
...election. The article of the constitution relating to membership is as follows:- "Any member of the University who shall have spoken in the debates of the society and shall have been proposed by the Executive Committee, shall be eligible to election as a member. "A four-fifths (4-5) vote of the members present taken by ballot shall constitute an election. Upon the payment of an initiation fee of one dollar and signing the constitution of the society, the person elected shall then become a member of the society...
...hundred students listened to a very interesting and well contested debate by the principal disputants at the Union last evening. After President Merriam had called the meeting to order, a vote on the merits of the question was taken which resulted in 32 votes for the affirmative and 58 for the negative. The debate was opened by the following gentlemen: A. B. Robinson, '87, and H. Solloway, L. S., for the affirmative, L. B. Stedman, '87, and French McAfee, Sp. When the secret ballot on the skill of these principal disputants was taken, it was found that the negative...
...Conference Committee is not its own "judge of time for meeting the committee of the faculty." Indeed the name, "the committee of the faculty," implies a distinction which does not exist. The Harvard Conference Committee consists of members from faculty and students, and is only one committee. The following vote of the faculty, taken from the scheme of conference, explains very clearly the relations between faculty and student members: "That the business of the conference be the discussion of subjects proposed either by the faculty members or student members; but that, in the order of business, subjects for discussion brought...
...took the ground that his selection, like that of Mayor Low in Brooklyn, was none the less wise because of his youth. He was only 27 years of age when elected, yet his administration has been so judicious and honest that his renomination on Saturday by the unanimous vote of the citizens' convention was looked for as a foregone conclusion. The disposition of young men of thorough collegiate and professional training to enter politics for honorable service is one of the hopeful signs of the times. Age may be needed to give experience and caution, but young men furnish...