Word: electivity
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...course the classes could elect these men from the candidates at large; but they won't as is evident from the list of nominees. The reason is that the mass know only the mass. It would seem wise, therefore, in order to enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO...
...corruption in business. Business was corrupting politics and not politics business. I found more grafting in business than I ever found in any city. About this time came the disclosures of grafting in the insurance companies. The policy holders in the companies are the citizens, who are supposed to elect officers and directors. Investigation showed that the directors were organized in combines which elected committees, and these committees interlocked, thus making a ring around the officers. When the ward heelers obtained policies from the people, they got proxies which went back to the officers of the company. The officers nominated...
...president; this committee shall publish on the first Monday after the opening of College in the following autumn a list of nominations for the delegates at large from each of the three upper classes (not more than six from a class to be nominated) . . . (4) Each class shall elect two delegates on or before the second Monday after the opening of College. (5) Within forty-eight hours after the election of the above delegates the temporary chairman shall convene the Council, at which meeting the annual election of officers shall take place. Also at this meeting the three representatives...
...entitled to the rights and privileges of this organization. Each component club may select two representatives to sit as members of the Council. Representatives of the component clubs in the Council shall be classified as civic, forensic, and unclassified. The representatives of each group in caucus assembled shall elect one member of the Executive Committee, who shall also act as chairman of the caucus. The Chairman and Secretary-Treasurer of the Council shall be ex-officiis members of the Executive Committee and shall act as its officers. Any component club may, after giving one month's notice of its intent...
...accordance with this resolution a committee of five men was appointed to draw up a tentative federation system of civic and debating club interests. The form of the proposed organization will be submitted to each of the component clubs. It may be accepted, amended, or rejected as each elect two delegates to represent them at a convention in which some permanent form of organization will be adopted, for as many clubs as choose to become members of it. The following were appointed to the committee: T. M. Gregory '10, R. S. Hoar 2L., E. E. Hunt '10, H. M. Potter...