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...before an open meeting of the Woodrow Wilson club at the Union last night. "The Foreign Office system of European diplomacy has necessarily become obsolete with the development of an international public opinion. Headlines rule the world. With this development a number of international conferences such as the international Postal Conference, have been called from time to time. The last of these was the Washington Conference, and the most disappointing thing about this meeting was that it had to adjourn". The speaker stressed the importance of a permanent conference system and outlined the value of the league in this connection...
...most important change decided upon provides for holding the election of directors of the Alumni Association, this year and in succeeding years, according to the alternative Australian ballot and postal ballot system which goes into effect this year for the election of Overseers of the University. This will make it possible for graduates in any part of the country to vote for directors, as well as for Overseers, without being present at Cambridge on Commencement...
...receive the largest number of votes by April 1 will be declared nominated. Of these ten, five will be elected by the new system which goes into effect this year, graduates being given the choice of casting their ballots in Cambridge on Commencement Day or of voting by postal ballot. The five men elected will serve for six-year terms...
...year term is therefore as follows: Early in the winter the standing committee on nominations of the Alumni Association nominates some 20 candidates (or more if there are extra vacancies in the Board to be filled). The names of these men are placed on a preliminary postal ballot sent about February first to all graduates eligible to vote. These preliminary ballots must be returned by April first, and the names of the ten candidates (or more if there are extra vacancies to be filled) who receive the largest number of votes will be placed on the final ballot, together with...
...final postal ballot, containing these ten or more names, will be sent about April 15 to all alumni eligible to vote. No ballot so voted will be counted unless received by 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Commencement Day. Also the polls will be open at Massachusetts Hall on Commencement Day from 10 until 3. Arrangements will be made so that no men who have already voted by mail may vote at the polls, and no ballot received by mail on Commencement Day from a man who has already voted at the polls will be counted. The five...