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Word: voting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifteen. New York City sends twenty, New Haven thriteen, Chicago ten, and Brooklyn nine. Sixty-eight men have written either for college or out-of-town papers, R. D. Paine being first with about thirty publications. Eighty-nine have subscribed to all the college papers. The daily News is voted the most valuable publication, with the Literary Magazie second. Dickens, Longfellow and Mrs. Browning are voted the favorite writers in their respective fields. "David Copperfield" is accredited the best book, and "Evangeline" the best poem. Napoleon is the most admired character in history. One hundred and one preparatory schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Statistics at Yale. | 6/13/1894 | See Source »

...representatives than by the class as a whole. The class delegate their power to the committee, and the committee, so long as its plans plainly meet the approval of a majority of the class, can rightfully expect that every member of the class shall respect their vote precisely as much as if it were a formal vote of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/12/1894 | See Source »

...ballot taken in Memorial Hall Monday evening was against the plan recommended by the board of directors, by a vote of 360 to 318. This is a practical endorsement of the scheme proposed by the Corporation, for a club table system throughout the hall with 1 1-2 men to a seat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Ballot. | 6/6/1894 | See Source »

...your issue of Saturday you published a statement of the new plan for running Memorial Hall which is to be put to the vote of the members of the association today. The statement hardly presented the question fairly. The new plan was shown in a most favorable aspect, while the evident objections to it, and the reasons in favor of the plan offered by the Corporation were entirely avoided, or only slightingly touched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 6/4/1894 | See Source »

...every man in the hall vote not for himself alone, but for the greatest good to the whole number. Let this be legislation for the future. Let it not be said of us that in our selfishness we adopted a scheme which was manifestly inequitable, and discouraged the Corporation

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 6/4/1894 | See Source »

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