Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...postal ballot for the nomination of candidates for the Board of Overseers resulted in the selection of the following 14 graduates, whose names are given in the order of the number of votes they received...
...Overseers will be elected at Commencement: five for the full term of six years; and two others to fill the vacancies caused by the deaths of William DeWitt Hyde '79 and Evert Jansen Wendell '82, whose terms would have expired, respectively, in 1921 and 1920. The total number of ballots received in this postal ballot, which has been carried on during the past two months, was 4,518, of which 102 were invalid. Last year the corresponding figures were...
...Commencement election the names of the candidates will be printed on the ballot in the order in which they are arranged above. The five who receive the largest number of votes will be elected for the full term of six years, and the sixth and seventh in number of votes will be elected to fill the un-expired terms of Dr. Hyde and Mr. Wendell...
...induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government's war policy, it remains for the inarticulate mass of voters, protected by the secrecy of the ballot box, to express the true verdict of the state. The election returns will indicate, more clearly than can newspapers or public speakers, whether the Germans of the Northwest, whose loyalty has been questioned, and the Northwestern farmers, on whose efforts so much of our success must depend, will wholeheartedly support...
...which the Boston club is disseminating lays much of its emphasis upon the apparent domination of the College by State Street. The club, furthermore, aims to examine the basis of such statements as "Harvard College has no voice in Harvard College, but State Street votes it down on every ballot." This remark was made in 1861 by Ralph Waldo Emerson, of the Class of 1821, but there are many graduates of the University who believe that the criticism still applies to the College...