Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year. 2. Amount of elective courses in which 60 per ct. has been received. 3. English composition, to be decided by the marks in sophomore themes. 4. Physical development, to be decided on the basis of improvement from the time of entering college. 5. Athletics, to be decided by vote of sophomore class. 6. Debate, to be decided by vote of the Harvard Union. 7. Services in the religious societies of the college, to be decided by joint vote of those societies...
...Resolved, That the requirement of Greek for admission to Harvard College should be abolished." The principal disputants were: Affirmative, Hibbard, '84, Roundy, '85 ; negative, Barnes, '84, E. B. Young, '85. Previous to the debate a secret ballot was held on the merits of the question, which resulted in a vote of, affirmative 24, negative, 32. The debate was then thrown open to the house and the following members spoke from the floor: Affirmative, Messrs. Bowen, '85, Merriam, '86, Gray, '87, Fraser, '86, W. B. Schofield, '87, Storrow, '87, Litchfield, '85; negative, Messrs. Halbert, '85, Peterson, '85, and Mr. Hart, instructor...
...vote cast for President of the Dining Association, last Friday, was the largest ever recorded in a Memorial Hall election...
...their failure came because they threw themselves upon an ideal method, not modified to conform to actual conditions. The truth is that the American College student is both boy and man; he comes in, a boy, with very little sense of responsibility, and yet he is often qualified to vote long before he takes his degree. The college, receiving him a boy should send him forth a man. And it should treat him in view of his transitional character during this period. The college theory of discipline should contemplate an increasing development of responsibility during the successive college years...
...venture to mention here a piece of history for the benefit of future historians of Harvard College. In the spring of 1858, it was proposed to abolish the barbarous custom of having morning prayers at six o'clock in the spring and summer. Mr. Sophocles had already given his vote for the change, but before the result could be announced by the president, the not infrequent excitement of a small bonfire on the steps of University Hall interrupted the proceedings of the faculty. After the bonfire he changed his vote, and six o'clock prayers were kept another year...