Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pleasure to nearly all Harvard men that the undergraduates showed themselves possessed of such self-control at the time of the recent vote of the Faculty. Any expressions of opinion at that time was likely to have been repented of later. Likewise any mass meeting was likely to have given a chance for the hot-headed, and so have done more harm than good...
...urge against it. What I would like to propose is this: that the presidents of the three upper classes and a number of graduates and undergraduates to serve as a committee representative of the athletic interests, which committee should draw up a statement of the reasons why the Faculty vote, if allowed to prevail, would do harm to the University and have this statement signed by the influential graduates and undergraduates who should sympathies with the protest. The statement could then be presented to the Corporation and Overseers and might have a good deal of weight. If it didn...
...committee by a two-thirds vote shall have power to change a man from one class to another, but the change must be made before the beginning of the seventh shoot in the series...
...Women Suffrage is equitable; accords with the principles of republican government. - (a) The best government comes from the consent of the governed. - (2) Women are citizens of the U. S. in all but right to vote: U. S. Rev. States. SS 1992-1994. - (b) "Taxation without representation is tyranny." - (1) Women own property as well as men. - (c) The ballot is the only efficient protection to a person's interests. - (1) Women not represented by men: Geo. Wm. Curtis, 8-13; Sumner, Speech March March...
...expedient that the pauper shall vote away other people's money." Mr. Park's points were brought out with force and clearness and received resounding applause...