Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view then of all these facts, and of the reasons which undoubtedly exist for the change or entire revocation of these rules, we respectfully petition, on behalf of the athletic organizations, to represent which we have been elected by the students, that the vote of the faculty, by which these resolutions were accepted, be reconsidered...
...vote of the faculty on the adoption of the regulations concerning athletics stood 23 to 5 in favor of them, This does not include all present, as several members did not vote. It is to be hoped that the next vote will be as marked in favor of the negative...
...athletic resolutions. This lessens by one the number from which the necessary five must come to make them binding. Now that the other colleges are making up their minds and taking enough interest in the matter to act, it looks very much as if a very large majority would vote against the resolutions. Dartmouth in her refusal states that the privilege of playing other nines is the only means their nine has for suitable practice. This is much very like our objection to the third resolution, only we do not make any great outcry over the loss of practice with...
...vote on the question of retaining the tug-of-war in the list of sports, at the Inter-collegiate Athletic Convention last week, stood only six to five in favor of such action. If not entirely satisfactory, this vote is encouraging, as showing that perhaps it will not be long before a majority of the colleges are brought to see the undesirability of retaining this event in the inter-collegiate programme...
...grounds instead of the Manhattan grounds, as at first announced. We may add that at the recent convention, all the delegates reported themselves as opposed to the athletic resolutions. In doubt as to whether the matter would be brought up, however, only a few had received positive instructions to vote against the resolutions. At Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the faculties themselves are decidedly opposed to the resolutions...