Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nominations for overseers to fill the five vacancies existing on the board of the University for next year have narrowed down to ten names as a result of the postal card ballot taken by the alumni. The list as it now stands will be voted on in Massachusetts Hall, Commencement Day, June 19, between half past nine and four o'clock. Graduates of the year 1914 and earlier classes only will be eligible to cast a ballot, no graduate of less than five years standing being allowed to take part in the election...
Five graduates will be elected to the Board this spring. The names of those ten nominees who receive the largest number of votes on this preliminary election will appear on the official ballots issued at Commencement, when the final vote for the five new members of the Board will be taken. Preliminary voting is now being carried on by the alumni of the University through a postal ballot system...
...amended the constitution will read that two nominations for each office will first be made by the class officers. The list may then be added to by petitions signed by thirty-five members of the class. At least three candidates must be on the ballot for each office. If no petitions are received the class officers shall make the necessary additional nominations...
...Freshmen will vote for their 1922 class officers today in the Standish Hall Common Room between 8.30 and 6 o'clock. As usual the system of preferential voting will be used throughout, except in the election of the Student Council Representative. Every ballot must be marked with the first, second and third choice for each of the three class officers...
...only the privilege but the absolute duty of each class member to cast his ballot. The non-voter in the outside world is being recognized more each day as an undesirable citizen and a liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class...