Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Engineering Soeiety last evening several important business matters were transacted. It was voted that the present system of annual dues be abolished and that there be substituted instead an initiation fee of $1.50. The office of librarian was by vote of the society abolished. The following men were elected officers for the ensuing year: President, S. U. Hopkins '97; secretary, Warren Partridge '97; treasurer, S. S. Montague...
...should certainly be unnecessary to call attention to the fact that the Dining Association is a large business concern and that if it is to be conducted in a sound, business-like manner, the directors must be chosen for their good judgment and ability. A member should either not vote at all or he should vote for the man who seems to him best fitted for the position. To put the name of a man on a ballot merely with the intention of playing a joke on him, is a form of wit that is likely to be little appreciated...
...probable that before long arrangements will be made whereby students of the Graduate School may get degrees for advanced work done in the Medical School. In his report to the President for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dean Peirce alludes to this subject and gives this significant vote of the Faculty passed at the end of the last academic year: "that there be added to the Committee on Honors and Higher Degrees in the Division of Natural History representatives of those departments of the Medical School wherein studies of a scientific non-professional kind are prosecuted; and this with...
...freshman musical organizations appear to be doing well, despite the present lack of interest in the 'varsity clubs. As usual the clubs will be limited to three concerts by vote of the faculty. No concerts will be given by the three organizations until after the Easter recess, although parts of each club will assist in programmes before that time...
...vote of the Faculty Athletic Committee of the University of Pennsylvania every member of last year's baseball team, except Captain Blakeley, third base, and Gorman and Grey, outfielders is debarred from playing this season. A large number of substitutes were also made ineligible for the nine. Among those debarred are Reuning, catcher; Schoenhut and Dickson, pitchers; and Goekle, Contrell and Avil, infielders. An investigation showed that these players had played on "summer nines" and in other ways had violated the University of Pennsylvania amateur rule...