Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Junior Class, held in Boylston last evening; was attended by about 100 men, who were called to order by President Barnes at 7.30. The class assembled for the purpose of making arrangements for the torchlight parade. It was voted that a distinctive class uniform should be selected. bearing the class colors, blue and white, but that the style of the uniform should be left to the discretion of a committee consisting of Messrs. Barnes, Merriam, Claflin, Winthrop. Snow, and Burnett. The class voted to wear the traditional black "stovepipe," and also, by a vote...
...result of the canvass undertaken by the Harvard Union has been published and the subject of the torchlight procession has been decided. The old custom of marching in the ranks of the Republicans will be followed for another year. The vote was very close for presidential preference, Blaine receiving a plurality of only twenty-one, but for choice of processions the college seemed to be largely in favor of the Republican one. We do not see the necessity of holding a mass meeting as the question is practically decided. The Independents and Democrats had better hold a meeting and adopt...
...Union, which has always shown energy and dispatch in taking up such investigations. This fall, no doubt the Union will afford us a few opportunities of listening to the political orators of Harvard College. It would be interesting to compare the result of the canvass just completed, with a vote in the Harvard Union after an exhaustive discussion of the relative merits of the two candidates for the Presidency...
...second vote, for a republican or a Cleveland procession stood as follows...
...political significance. The managers of the Independent movement have laid great stress on the fact that the young men of the country, being more free from party habits and party bias, can see Blaine's record in its true light, and are refusing to vote for him. If we march with the Republicans, then, this statement is disproved ; if we march with the Independents and Democrats, this statement is proven true. Moreover, as shown by Mr. Warner in your issue of yesterday, it has not been custom, but tacit obedience to the wishes of the majority, that...