Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three theological students at Yale have brought suit against the selectmen of New Haven for refusing to permit them to vote last fall...
...affirmative, Messrs. Stedman, '87, Davis, '85, Robinson, '87, Hamilton, '87, McAfee, '87, Webster, '85, Hobson, '86, Rich, '87, Whittemore, '85, Griffin, '88. Negative, Garrison, '88, Hobbs, '85, Loeb, '88, Robinson, '85, Morrison, '87, Bliss, '88, Halbert, '85, Richardson, '86, Knapp, '87, Lloyd, '86, Sternberg, '87, and Truslow, '87. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood, affirmative, 13; negative...
...vote on the merits of the question, Resolved: that the alterations in the requirements for admission into Harvard College are desirable, resulted in 45 votes for the affirmative, and 25 for the negative. J. H. Huddleston, '86 opened the debate for the affirmative, and G. P. Furber, '87, for the negative, followed by G. F. Davidson, '85, aff., and by H. M. Williams, '85, neg. On the secret ballot on the merits of arguments of principal disputants, the affirmative received 19 votes, and the negative...
...order that the debate to-night may be representative, and that the votes may be true of expressions of undergraduate sentiment, ends that are very desirable, every one who has thought of the subject, and every one who feels that his opinion goes to make up the opinion of the college, should be in Sever 11, this evening, and should speak and vote as one interested in the welfare of our university, and alive to the great question that bears so directly upon...
...system of education pursued at the public schools, and must eventually exercise a diminishing effect on the number of university candidates. The importance of Classics as a branch of education has long been disputed with considerable ardour and ferocity; but there can be no doubt that a very important vote has now been registered against them...