Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Board of Overseers at their adjourned meeting on May 5 voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their vote electing Joseph Henry Beale, professor of law from Sept. 1, 1897. Messrs. Folsom, Grant and Bancroft were appointed a committee to have charge of the next election of overseers...
...unsatisfactory and even dangerous nature of such a state of affairs needs only to be pointed out. Tonight, an amendment to the constitution will be proposed, for the purpose of postponing the elections till some days after the nominations are made at the annual meeting, and of taking the vote by printed ballots during a whole...
...advantages of this change are obvious. The interval between the nominations and the elections will give men a chance to find out the merits of candidates; and the prolonging of the vote through a whole day, besides ensuring a much larger vote, will make it possible for men to express their preferences in three minutes instead of the three hours that the evening meeting has usually occupied...
...argument that will have force with the candidate himself rather than with the club as a whole. That the postponement of the election for a few days will harmfully prolong the excitement can hardly have been seriously meant. That, after all, it is better that only those interested should vote, is a proposition the fallacy in which is evident when we consider the ambiguity of the word "interested...
...individual preferences of the members of the class should no longer have any weight with them. After open and careful discussion the class voted to wear caps and gowns, and that vote should be considered binding by every man in the class. Unless some action is taken, what might readily be made a pleasing custom will degenerate into a mere farce...