Word: voting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Student Council votes approval of the report of its committee on the Union, and it declares its unqualified support of universal membership as being the only possible solution of the Union problem. It sets May 20 as a date upon which the classes shall vote upon the question and it urges that all undergraduates will seriously consider the report of this committee to the Council, and will vote with a realization of the importance of the question under consideration...
...vote of the Faculty which previously read that every Freshman should be examined physically at the beginning of the academic year, was changed so as to read that every student registering for the first time in Harvard College should be examined physically at the beginning of the academic year...
...question of compulsory membership in the Union comes before the Student Council tonight, doubtless for a vote of that body. The issue is serious. On the one side is the welfare of the Union and its service to the University. There is no doubt of the fact that universal membership would be the salvation of the Union, both from a social and a financial standpoint. There is also no doubt that the present condition of affairs cannot and should not be allowed to drag out wearily to a catastrophe. Compulsory membership, however, faces a difficulty which even its strongest advocates...
...University to take over the Union, have the taxes removed, and appropriate for it some of the revenue to come from the increased tuition fee. This is a possibility; and every effort should be made to effect it before compulsory membership is definitely adopted. In the meantime a vote of the undergraduates should be held to determine their attitude for a firmer working basis. The Student Council's vote otherwise forces the grave danger of being unrepresentative...
Princeton, N. J., May 5.--By a vote of two to one the judges gave the decision to the Princeton 1919 negative debating team over the Harvard 1919 affirmative in the Triangular Debate held here this evening. L. Dennis '19 and H. C. Van Dusen, of Princeton, were the most convincing speakers. The strength of the negative case rested largely in the rebuttal where they held the Philippines were not a great expense, that the combined Filipinos did not want independence, and that the affirmative position was altruistic, not imperialistic...