Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students that a committee which is elected for conference only shall not have executive power. It may be urged that the basis of representation pursued in the choice of the conference committee will be unjust to the lower classes, if followed in the election of a committee like the yard committee, which will be brought into closer relations with the lower than with the higher classes. To this we may reply that what is just in the constitution of our representative committee may be fairly considered just in that of another, if the work of both is aimed...
...last regular meeting of the Conference Committee, April 21st, it was unanimously voted: "That the faculty be recommended to pass a vote entrusting the maintenance of order in the yard to the students, for the remainder of the year...
...That the student members of the Conference Committee be requested to make such provision as they may think best for the maintenance of order in the yard and to associate with them for that purpose such students as they may choose...
...11th, that the student members of the Conference Committee be authorized to call a mass meeting of the students, or to take any other measure which seem to them judicious, for the purpose of procuring the election or appointment of a committee to maintain order in the yard...
Acting upon this vote, the student members of the Conference Committee have called a mass meeting in Holden Chapel to-night in order that the students may there elect a committee to maintain order in the yard...