Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this meets with any approval, will the management kindly allow those, who have not voted yet on the first two methods, to vote for this third method, if they desire, and also, for those who have voted, to change their vote...
...speakers to represent Harvard against Yale are to be chosen by competitive debate to-night. At the same time the judges will select those who, by the vote of the old Union, are to become the charter members of the new society. We have stated before that the proposed reform was one which will work eventually, if not immediately, for the interests of public speaking at Harvard. We still feel that in saying this we are expressing the sentiment of the college at large, in spite of the criticism of a certain speaker at the last meeting of the Union...
...committee had intended that the two couples winning the most sets in each section should pass on to the second round. In response to objections, however, it wishes now to put the contestants to vote: whether the tournament shall be run on this principle, or shall be decided solely on the basis of points won from round to round. For this purpose a bluebook has been left at Bartlett's, there to remain until the end of the week. All contestants interested will please sign for one thing or the other at once...
...only action of importance at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association on Saturday, was the rejection of the undergraduate rule as proposed by Yale. It is a significant point that whereas a two-thirds vote was necessary to pass the amendment, the two thirds vote was cast against it. This action shows clearly the position which the large majority of colleges represented at the meeting, take in regard to this question. Harvard, with the others, placed herself on record as opposed to the rule, but not because she was opposed to reform. She simply believes that, in the heat...
...undergraduate rule, as it now stands, is a fixture at Yale for one year only, and is subject to considerable modification. It can hardly prove an insurmountable obstacle, considering the strong feeling at Yale against it and in view of the declaration which was made, when the first vote at Yale was reconsidered, that games would be arranged with Harvard regardless of the action of the university on the second vote...