Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular meeting of the Prospect Union Wednesday evening, a unanimous and hearty vote of thanks was tendered the members of the Harvard University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs for their kindness in giving the concert for the benefit of the Union in Cambridgeport last week. The net proceeds of the concert amounted to nearly two hundred dollars...
Fifty men were present at the meeting of the Freshman Debating Club last night in Sever 11. After the debate H. A. Bull '95 delivered a criticism on the debate. The decision of the house favored the negative, but the vote of the judges was a tie. Many men spoke from the house, making the meeting the best that has been held by the club this year...
Question: "Resolved, That United States senators ought to be chosen by popular vote...
...recent annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York City President Eliot was hissed "for his enmity to football." The statement is false. Not only was President Eliot's name not hissed, but it was greeted each time with applause. The announcement of the Faculty's vote against football did evoke hissing when first made, but then only, and before the reasons which led to the vote had been stated to the alumni present...
...known as the Olympic Games. If some lovers of Pindar feel their teeth on edge at this name, as applied to bicycle races and lawn tennis tournaments, we Greeks are to a man delighted that the first of these meetings is to be held in Athens, by unanimous vote of the members of the aforesaid Congress. And doubtless there could be no fitter spot to inaugurate these contests, which will be of incalculable benefit to the cause of athletics all over the civilized world than the land where athletics in their highest sense were brought to such perfection twenty-four...