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...this way. But the students as a body ought to have some representation, and election by classes is the most practicable way in which this can be accomplished. In order to avoid undue haste in the choice of delegates, it might be well to require their election by ballot. Another regulation might be that one, but only one, delegate shall be chosen who is especially interested in athletics, thus avoiding the danger, which is often experienced in colleges, of the athletic element overriding the general interests of the students. They should be elected at the first class meeting, and should...
...case there is no championship, the president shall be elected by ballot...
...question was, Resolved, That the District System of electing a President, as proposed by Senator Morton, should be adopted. The secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in 15 votes for the affirmative, and 7 for the negative. The following men spoke as principal disputants, aff., E. W. Frost, L. S., and E. I. Smith, '85, neg., A. G. Webster, '85, and O. F. Hibbard, L. S. On the vote on the merits of argument of principal disputants, the affirmative received 33 votes, the negative 1. When the debate was thrown open to the house, the following gentlemen...
...debate of the Union last night was well attended and very interesting. The question was "Resolved, that the enfranchisement of the Negro, as accomplished by the 15th amen linnet, was a mistake." The secret ballot on the merits of the question resulted in 13 votes for the affirmative, and 43 for the negative. J. M. Merriam, '86, opened for the affirmative, and B. G. Davis, '85, for the negative. These gentlemen were followed by L. M. Garrison, '88, aff., and P. L. Sternbergh, '87, neg. The vote on the merits of the arguments of principal dispatants stood...
Upon the debate being thrown open to the house there spoke from the floor Messrs. Jennings, Hibbard, Fraser, Roundy, Carrier, Davis, Hobson, C. H. Strong, Garrison, Mahany, Platt, Sawyer, Webster, Bowen, Page, McAffee, Richardson, Chenoworth, Root, Robinson. The ballot on the debate of the principal disputants resulted in a vote of affair., 35; neg., 101. That of the debate as a whole...