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...Stead acting as tellers. R. S. Hale made a speech for the I. S. A. A. while the ballots were being counted. The result of the ballot was: 39 votes for Hunt, 38 for Batchelder and 2 for Crosby. As Crosby was not a candidate, a second ballot was cast and Hunt received 40 votes and Batchelder 39. G. R. Fearing '93 and P. W. Davis'93 were nominated for secretary and Fearing was elected, 54 votes to 21. The motion was made, seconded and carried to refer the much disputed question of tug-of-war to a committee...
...Every office shall be voted separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in 12 sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
Would that it were possible for you, to whom perhaps some clearer vision of this is coming as you leave these familiar scenes, somehow to speak back and leave your testimony to the true value of college life and cast down some of the false ideas and dissipate some of the clouds which widely hide that value from the eyes of men who are still scattered along the valleys and uplands of four delightful and absorbing years...
...standing committee of the electors of the alumni of Harvard College report that they have counted the nomination ballots and find that 1793 were cast, and that the following are the official nominees for overseers of Harvard College...