Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of the Board of Freshman Advisers to urge Freshmen to take at least one course in each of the broad areas of learning in their first two years is a move in the right direction. It should help to reduce the number of misfit concentrators; but the average Freshman may still have to make his choice of field prematurely. Harvard has two major responsibilities. It must acquaint the student with the major areas of learning so that he can choose wisely how to concentrate; and second, even if the student's choice is made before he comes to Harvard...
...present the Faculty is considering a Student Council Report on Education, which proposes compulsory survey courses in each area, and the Board's unanimous vote was interpreted as a step toward a solution of the problems set forth by the Council...
...Negroes in Manhattan's Harlem, 200,000 others elsewhere in New York State have the vote, ride with whites on busses and trains, do not have to sidle into gutters when white folks pass. But in other ways New York Negroes are little better off than their kin down South. Hotels and restaurants still refuse to serve Negroes (though sometimes they get sued for refusing) ; in the heart of dark Harlem, Negroes are hard put to find jobs in stores where they are welcome buyers. Many a labor union, dominated by white majorities, excludes Negroes outright or does...
...midmorning Stockholder Rich, stewing in St. Louis, telephoned his attorney in Tulsa to get the meeting postponed. Advised that the meeting would not be postponed, he spent $8 wiring the proxies on the chance that the attorney would be allowed to vote them. Then the skies cleared. Stockholder Rich hopped a plane, landed in Tulsa, taxied from the airport to the Barnsdall offices, arrived only 15 minutes after the meeting had been called, found it had been concluded eight minutes before. In five minutes Barnsdall officers had cleaned up all business in the stockholders' meeting and voted...
...almost two hours, dignified doctors made the welkin ring with catcalls, boos, and cries of "Sit down! Hire a hall!" Roundly applauded was a young doctor who said: "The private practice of medicine has fallen 40 to 50%. At this time to vote $60,000 salary for one man is not only illegal but also immoral. Many men would fill the job at one-fourth the salary...