Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the members of the faculty seemed particularly reticent about disclosing anything in connection with their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the result of the discussion which took place then has leaked out. After a protracted debate on the subject of voluntary prayers, the board decided by their vote to put themselves on record as favorable to the plea made in the recent petition presented by the students. This is another step in the right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power...
...meeting of the board of overseers yesterday, the recent vote of the board, recommending that the quin quennial catalogue be printed in English was re-considered and a motion to have it printed in English was lost by a vote of nine to seven...
...Peabody presented the report of the committee to consider the vote of the president and fetain students at a religious service on the Sabbath, with the recommendation that the board should concur with said vote. The report was accepted and the recommendation was adopted. The Rev. Dr. Peabody presented the following resolution...
...announcement that the directors of the Harvard Co-operative Society have passed a provisional vote to wind up the affairs of that organization is a surprise. The society has been represented as an entire success, and as doing a steadily increasing business. It has been considered a model for other colleges. Under its by-laws its managers are prohibited from incurring debts. Its fundamental principle has been to enforce cash payments in making all purchases and sales, and the stock carried and owned by it rightfully represents nothing but its invested savings. Unless this principle has been departed from, there...
Another committee reported that in accordance with a vote passed in 1867, members of the board of overseers who become members of the corporation or officers of instruction are still entitled to remain on the board. The other business transacted was unimportant, and the meeting adjourned until...