Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again." To go back to oratory and acting, many actors have wondered why they have...
...that is boundless resources for building our defense. May we never be in that helpless condition that will oblige us to buy our ships and munitions of war abroad. In the midst of unexampled commercial prosperity, is not our martial spirit disappearing? Have not a strong tendency to vote business and literary capacity far above the profession of arms...
...meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, held yesterday afternoon, a motion to prohibit students from participating in intercollegiate football contests was defeated by a considerable majority. This vote probably finishes the faculty's discussion of the intercollegiate football question for the present, and leaves its settlement with the Athletic Committee, in accordance with the recent votes of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers...
...plan not authorized. - (a) Has never been submitted to the people. - (1) Question presented for vote last summer obscure. - (2) Many voters absent from the city. - (3) Expense underestimated. - (4) Vote taken on insufficient notice. - (b) Vote taken understood to be on question of elevated railroad...
...this bout. Both were wary and cool, Thacher appearing fresher than the Columbia representative. Thacher's thrusts were well calculated and delivered, while Townsend's defence and position were excellent. After four minutes of skilful thrusting and parrying, which evoked much applause, Thacher was declared the winner by a vote...