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...Committee on the Nominations of Overseers has sent out the list of candidates for the Board of Overseers to be balloted on by the alumni. This year at Commencement Day there are six vacancies on the Board to be filled; five for the full term of six years, and one for a term of two years. The names of the twelve candidates from the list of nineteen given below, receiving the highest number of votes on the postal ballot will be placed on the official Australian ballot for use on Commencement Day, June 29. If anybody entitled to vote...
...straw ballot of the Political Club on the question: "Resolved, That the record of the present administration for the past year would not justify the reelection of President Taft," will be held for Law School students in Austin Hall from 10 to 3 o'clock today...
...suggestion of the presidents of the Republican and Democratic Clubs, the executive committee of the Political Club has decided to limit the straw ballot to the Law School. This is to avoid misconstruction, due to a failure on the part of a number of the under graduates to understand the purpose of the ballot. The resolution proposed has been changed, and now stands in the following form: "That the record of the present administration for the past year would not justify the re-election of President Taft...
Discussion of important political affairs by undergraduates is well worth while, but taking a straw ballot which will effect absolutely nothing upon a question which cannot possibly become an issue is a waste of time. It is very laudable for the Political Club to be so ambitious to stir up some question of general interest, but it must have forgotten its sense of propriety in presuming to call the present administration of the United States to account. The recasting of the question makes it only slightly less offensive, and does not remove one of the most serious objections to advertising...
...annual election of officers and committee members of the Union will be held today from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M. in the corridor of the Union. The Australian ballot system will be used and no voting by proxy will be permitted. Only active and life members who are students in the University will have the right to vote. The persons receiving the greatest number of votes will be declared elected. The following men have been appointed to take charge at the polls: from 8 to 9, R. Lowell '12 and C. M. Storey...