Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vote of the Memorial Hall waiters for President is Blaine, 60; Cleveland...
...vacation of the Yale students has been made a week longer by a recent vote of their faculty, and next fall the men will not have to return to New Haven until Sept...
...University of Christiania, by a unanimous vote of the Odelsthing, has been empowered to place female students on exactly the same footing as male with regard to examinations and scholarships. Women have been allowed to attend the lectures of the university for the last two years...
...have been informed that a canvass was made recently among the students of Wellesley College to ascertain their choice for President, and that this canvass resulted in a majority of the votes for Edmunds. This is truly gratifying. The principal objection men seem to have now a-days to woman sufferage is that if women were empowered to vote they might disagree with the 'Iords of creation' in political matters as, it is said, they have a habit of doing in many others; but the way in which Wellesley supports the views of Harvard, as expressed by the canvass made...
...characterizing the marking system, compulsory attendance at religious exercises and the closing of the reading-room on Sunday as absurd features not by any means peculiar to Dartmouth, and advocating the formation of an association of students to supplement the power of petition. After a protracted meeting the faculty voted by a majority of one to expel the authors of the articles should they refuse to retract their statements. The minority vote was in favor of immediate expulsion without opportunity to retract. The two men were given a short time to apologize and retract and on their failure...