Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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DRAKSIR.- I am directed by a vote of the Faculty passed this day to call your attention to the practice of certain students of "passing" and "knocking up" ball near the University building on Holmes field, e. g. the Jeffersol Laboratory...
...enjoyment, two musicians have been engaged to play throughout the evening. Several members have consented to take part in a fencing contest, and there is also promised a bout with the single sticks. Only members will be admitted to the rooms, as the visitor's list, by vote of the committee, has been suspended for that evening...
...position to receive this new regulation, and it is to be hoped, that we never shall be again, and the present time far from being unsuited for its adoption is really most opportune. We have gained very little from our associations with the small colleges, and in fact the vote of the University of Pensylvania in an athletic meeting last fall practically deprived Harvard of all chance of winning in football...
After a number of those present had spoken from the floor, Mr. Bates closed for the affirmative and Mr. Stone for the affirmative. The vote on the merits of the question was, affirmative 12, negative 23; on the merits of principal disputants, affirmative 25, negative 17; on debate as a whole, affirmative 5, negative...
...advocates is "to regulate the system by statute law." He looks to the Australian ballot as the solution of several knotty problems, and instances its success in a recent election in Ward 11 of Boston. It gave publicity to the proceedings, equal power to all voters, more time for voting, and secrecy. The chief difficulty in reforming the caucus is to determine who is entitled to vote; but this trouble already exists under the present system. Mr. Dana considers that "the main provisions requiring an official caucus ballot, secrecy in voting, publishing the contents of the ballot a considerable time...