Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Football has of course been the most recent topic of discussion before the Faculty, and the wildest rumors have from time to time started about contemplated action. The matter has not yet been settled. It is before the Faculty in the form of a motion to prohibit all games at or near New York. It is thought that the most radical action that will be taken will be the shortening of the season by perhaps a week, so that the last game shall be played at the latest a week before Thanksgiving. But even as much action as this...
...professor can be quoted as saying he will introduce a motion to abolish the game. Considerable numbers of professors express themselves, if football is to go on, as in favor of a dual league with Harvard and treating other games as subsidiary and for "practice" merely...
...special meeting of the board of directors of the Harvard Dining Association held last night to consider the question of opening the gallery of Memorial Hall to visitors on Thursday evenings, a motion to rescind the former vote of the board was lost. The vote, it will be remembered, was that the gallery be closed on Thursday evenings until further action on the part of the directors...
...would ensure free discussion. - (a) A secretary's motion would not be referred to a committee, for - (1) his motion is already, as it were, the report of a committee. - (2) Both Houses would adopt rules against doing it. - (b) A secretary's speech in the open House would be reported, whereas his speech before a committee is not reported...
About twenty-five men were present last evening to hear the report of the committee appointed to draw up a constitution for a Harvard Press Association. The question of the advisability of the Press Association was again raised and a motion against it was lost by a vote of thirteen to eleven. The constitution was then adopted by sections, and the chairman of the committee was authorized to call a meeting for the election of officers...