Word: voting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fellows of Harvard College and the Board of Overseers of said College, acting separately at meetings called for that purpose, may, after the expiration of three years from the date of the acceptance of this act as provided in section 2, determine from time to time by concurrent vote whether any, and, if any, what degrees issued by said College other than those mentioned in section 1 of chapter 173, of the acts of the year 1865, shall entitle the recipients thereof to vote for overseers to the same extent and under the same restrictions to and under which recipients...
...special meeting held yesterday morning the Board of Overseers concurred in the vote already passed by the Corporation, electing Charles Pomeroy Parker, A.B., Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, to serve from September...
...earlier act, passed in 1865, specified that only holders of degrees from the College should vote for overseers. After this act was passed, a movement to have the franchise extended to graduates of the Lawrence Scientific School and of the Law School was started, as both had greatly increased in importance. The suggestion for the change came from President Eliot and it was mainly through his persistent efforts that the movement has spread...
...time, the act shall not become operative for three years, or until after three changes in the personnel of the Board of Overseers shall have taken place. The bill provides that the President and Fellows and Board of Overseers shall determine by themselves what degrees entitle graduates to vote for Overseers...
...Samuel Hoar and the Hon. Charles F. Adams, 2nd, went before the Committee on Education of the Massachusetts Assembly yesterday to advocate a favorable report on a bill to enable the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers separately to determine what degrees shall entitle graduates to vote for Overseers. The bill is subject to acceptance by the Overseers, and the president and Fellows respectively. It is a compromise measure, agreed to by those who believe graduates from postgraduate schools, who originally graduated from some other college, should be entitled to vote, and by those who take the opposite...