Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Garrison, L. S., who moved that the meeting express it as the sentiment of the students that the Athletic Committee be requested to suggest some plan under which celebrations may be conducted in a manner more satisfactory to all than they are at present. The motion was carried unanimously...
...last meeting of the executive committee of the Harvard University Cycling Association, a motion was passed to challenge the Boston Athletic Club to a team race, to be run on Holmes field May 24, directly after the base ball game between Harvard and B. A. A.; teams to consist of three men each. Such race to take place provided that the chairman of the L. A. W. racing board allows the race to be run under other rules than as laid down in the L. A. W. "track rule" 33. It was also decided to hold a handicap road race...
...Yale mass meeting Saturday a fair proportion of the university was present. The report of the committee was first accepted to express satisfaction with their work; then a motion of definite approval of the attitude of the report was passed. The committee demands one game of football at New York, the barring of special students from the teams and a deciding game of baseball on neutral grounds in case of a tie. A motion that the committee confer with Princeton with a view to making similar arrangements brought out the strong feeling of Yale regarding discrimination against Princeton...
...represented by R. D. Brown, '90, and T. W. Batch, '90. The meeting was called to order by President Wood. Harvard moved that the intercollegiate games be played according to the American plan, that is that each innings shall be divided into three turns. After a long debate the motion was carried, Harvard and Pennsylvania voting in the affirmative, and Haverford in the negative. It was decided to ask Columbia, in view of the fact that she will have a cricket eleven this spring, to join the association, and also to send towards the end of June a team picked...
...meeting of the Harvard Bicycle club last evening the following motion was passed unanimously: That the Harvard Bicycle club give control of racing, and all money so far subscribed by the college for racing purposes, into the hands of a new and entirely separate association so be formed after the present meeting has adjourned. Membership in the new association to be open to any man in the university on payment of the prescribed fee, either hereafter or as a previous subscription to the H. B. C. racing fund-no member of the H. B. C. to be entitled to membership...