Word: voting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the Commission will file exceptions to the ruling and apply for a decision form the full bench was still undetermined last night, but the students were satisfied that they had won their fight against arbitary discrimination by the City against Harvard men legally qualified to vote...
Controversies over neutral rights and the mutual recrimination by newspapers in both countries were the two principal sources of ill feeling, he said. "Seward with an eye on the Irish vote and an ignorance of international law was apt to overplay his hand and mingle well founded protests at British violations with unjustified demands for concessions." Both nations realized that their actions would establish precedents for later diplomacy...
...National Scholarship plan could never have originated in state universities, subject as they are to budget-balancing governors. Moreover, only an institution like Harvard is capable of extensively promoting research of a non-utilitarian character, the ultimate values of which may not be appreciated by the constituency of a vote-seeking politician...
Represented by the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a third-year law student battled with the City Election Commission before the bar of justice yesterday in what may well be a test case on the right of graduate men to vote in Cambridge. Justice Qua of the State Supreme Court reserved decision...
...student counselors asked for a writ of mandamus to allow Dailey to vote in the elections next week, while City Solicitor Evarts, on behalf of the local commission, maintained that the third-year man was not intending to reside here...