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...resignation of President Porter. The nominations were secret, yet it is thought that the following gentlemen were the candidates: Professor Timothy Dwight, President Francis A. Walker of the Mass. Institute of Technology, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University, and Professor Brush of the Yale Scientific School. A number of ballots were taken without result, but on the final ballot, Professor Timothy Dwight, professor of sacred literature in the Yale Divinity School, was unanimously elected. Professor Dwight will be inaugurated the day following commencement...
...Harvard Union met last night in Sever 11, and debated the question, "Resolved, That responsible government more truly represents the people than our present constitutional government." The ballot on the merits of the case resulted in 13 votes for the affirmative, and 40 for the negative. The debate was then opened for the affirmative by Mr. Paine, '88, who spoke clearly and forcibly. He was followed by Mr. Burdett, '88, for the negative, Mr. Hesseltine, '88, for the affirmative, and Mr. Chenoweth, '88, for the negative. The vote on the merits of the argument of the principal disputants resulted...
...surprise the reader, is their hatred of violence as a means in attaining their ends. They deplored unanimously the assassination of the Czar as an event which would weaken the cause. Their purpose was a thorough economical education of the laboring classes in order that they might use the ballot intelligently to secure those great reforms so sadly needed. The majority of the students were ardent followers of Carl Marx, and possessed the greatest confidence in the power of the people to establish that form of society which would bring the greatest prosperity and happiness to the human race...
...foot-ball captain for next year will be chosen to-day by ballot, at Captain Kimball's room...
...membership is as follows:- "Any member of the University who shall have spoken in the debates of the society and shall have been proposed by the Executive Committee, shall be eligible to election as a member. "A four-fifths (4-5) vote of the members present taken by ballot shall constitute an election. Upon the payment of an initiation fee of one dollar and signing the constitution of the society, the person elected shall then become a member of the society...