Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are two conditions attached to the vote, first that the seats shall be built on steel frame-work; and second that they shall be removed by the first of July of this year...
...reason for the postal card vote was to show the Corporation the definite opinion of the whole class in the only way that would have any weight. After the Corporation Committee has definitely agreed to the proposed scheme, there will be a class meeting in which some form of Tree exercises will be finally adopted, and the question of an extension of the period settled...
...Corporation abolished the practice of remitting fees to assistants and increased the salaries of assistants. An important vote was adopted on March 2, 1896, to the effect that the receipts and expenditures of Harvard College, the Lawrence Scientific School and the Graduate School be combined in one account. No department will, however, be fostered at the expense of another...
Continuing, Dean Briggs shows just why the recent vote of the Faculty in regard to posting names for dishonesty in written work was passed, and then concludes his remarks on this subject as follows: "My hope is that self-respect or fear will make the offence almost impossible; for whoever cheats will know that he cheats, and will cheat with his eyes open to the result of detection: and my ultimate hope is a higher right for Harvard College to maintain that she stands for truth...
...best way to decide between these two or any other plans is to have a vote taken at a class meeting...