Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...adjourned meeting of the Board of Overseers at 50 State street on Wednesday afternoon, the following men were elected to act as inspectors at the election of overseers at Commencement: Algernon Collidge jr., '81, principal; Arthur Lyman '83 and R. F. Simes '85, assistants. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in the vote appointing F. B. Tarbell, Ph. D., instructor in Greek and Latin; P. B. Marcon, Ph. D., tutor in French for three years from Sept. 1, 1890; Max Poll, Ph. D., instructor in German for 1890-91; A. L. Mason, Ph. D., assistant professor...
Complying with this vote, I am very faithfully yours, FRANK BOLLES, Sec'y H. U.A. H. Williams, '91, said that while he believed that the resignation of the committee appointed Monday night ought to be accepted, another committee ought to be appointed to do the work they refused...
...taken by Harvard in the first meeting was manly and decisive. It showed Harvard men as thoroughly indignant, unwilling to recognize the perpetrators of the outrage as belonging to themselves, and determined to do their best to rid the college of the presence of such vandals. By rescinding their vote Harvard students have put themselves in an attitude of insincerity. If they are unwilling to take any share in driving out the miscreants from their midst, what force can their resolutions of condemnation have? They become mere empty words. The one thing which showed that Harvrd was thoroughly in earnest...
...second mass meeting has been called for this evening to take action on the resignation of the members of the committee appointed last evening. It is to be hoped that the vote of last evening will not be repeated on this account. The college then showed its earnestness by deciding to take some active means to get rid of the culprits who committed the outrage. To go back upon this action would be to prove ourselves insincere. Our expressions of condemnation will have no weight if we are unwilling to act upon them. If we refuse to have the culprits...
...rules adopted by the Faculty last spring, in accordance with the famous vote of the overseers of January 30, 1889, have now had almost a year's trial. It is difficult to trace their effect except in a general way, and part of the changes they have produced may be only temporary; but it is interesting to notice some of the results. It will be remembered that the overseers first voted that in their opinion it was "expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning;" that the Faculty, unwilling to establish a roll-call, adopted...