Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the members of the Union last night it was voted to amend the constitution by inserting after Section 5, Article VII, the following...
...also voted to amend Section 7, Article VII, of the constitution, which reads "All active and life members shall have the right to vote," to read "All active, life, and participating members shall have the right to vote...
...This was supposed, at the time of the framing of the Constitution, to be a very great power, and that the power of the Senate would be neutralized thereby, but it has not returned out to be of great importance. The reason for this is that the Senate can amend bills of this nature, providing only that the article is not changed; or, as it has been aptly said, "the House has the power to touch the button and watch the Senate form a tariff bill...
...those below in the dining hall to call the attention of the guests to their failure to comply with what is considered respectful by tapping a tumbler with one of the table accessories. Past experience has proved that it is seldom or never that visitors so reproved fail to amend their fault. At no other time, however, is it necessary to evince any knowledge of the presence of visitors in the gallery. And at no time whatever is such an exhibition of disgracefully bad manners to be tolerated as has lately been paraded in Memorial Hall before the older...
...amend the standing rules and orders of the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers concerning the regulation of athletic sports, as adopted by the President and Fellows at their meeting of March 11, 1907, and by the Board of Overseers at their meeting of March 13, 1907, by substituting the words 'three members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences appointed by the Overseers' for the words 'the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; the Dean of Harvard College, and the Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, ex officiis...