Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ruling on "filibustering" is dangerous, one-sided and liable to be carried to extremes; - (a) Congress likely to pass too much rather than too little legislation; - (b) A minority by filibustering attracts public attention; - (c) It prevents members from introducing an amendment which might pass if put to a vote; - (d) Liable to extremity because the pronouncing upon the character of a motion left to the discretion of an opponent...
...Board also recommended changes in the constitution of the Athletic Committee. These changes were adopted and as at present constituted, the committee consists of three graduate and three Faculty members, appointed by the corporation with the consent of the overseers, and three undergraduate members, elected by the majority vote of the following students: the presidents of the senior, junior and sophomore classes, and a representative from each of the following athletic organizations: the Boat Club, the Cricket Club, and the Athletic, Base Ball, Foot Ball, Lacrosse, and Tennis Associations, who shall be called together for the purpose of making this...
...entire supervision and control of all athletic exercises within and without the precincts of the University. The control of athletics is thus taken entirely away from the Faculty. The committee reports once a year to the Corporation but has never received any instructions from them except those accompanying the vote which constituted it. These were contained in the following vote...
...This vote was understood to refer to the recommendations of May 2, '88, and the Athletic, Committee has felt bound to follow as well as it could the lines laid down in that vote, without forgetting its second and no less important duty, the fostering of the sports committed to its charge...
...vote of May 2, '88, recommended that University teams alone should be allowed to take part in the intercollegiate contests. But the Athletic Committee has considered that freshman games are necessary to arouse a proper interest in athletics in each succeeding class. They have therefore allowed them to continue, but have regulated them in two ways. First, all arrangements made by freshman teams must be approved by the 'varsity management of the sport. Secondly, freshmen are defined as first year men in the academic and scientific departments, regular or specials. Our freshmen teams have been run on these principles...