Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call attention through your columns to a danger attending the unrestricted nominating of Class Day officers which Nineteen Hundred is not taking sufficient account of? I refer to the danger that the best men may be defeated at the election of the votes of the class have to be scattered among too large a number of nominees. This applies especially to the committee's, which, though esteemed minor honors, are very great in importance. Usually there are not more than four men for each committee who deserve to be elected. But if eight or more nominations are made for each...
...person whose name does not appear on the provisional list must, in order to be entitled to vote, send a note setting forth his claims to eligibility, to the chairman of the Committee on Class Election, T. H. Whitney, CRIMSON office, before 9 p. m., on Monday, Dec. 11. The final list of voters will be posted Wednesday...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First, Second and Third Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for First Marshal shall be First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal; the other candidate being Third Marshal...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for each committee, indicating his preference for Chairman. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each committee shall be declared elected. Of these three elected, that one receiving the highest number of votes for Chairman shall be the Chairman of the Committee. T. H. Whitney. William Morrow. James E. McCloskey. Wm. C. Heilman. R. C. Bolling...
...begins by summarizing the tendencies which led from the first adoption of the elective principle to the proposal to take the logical step and satisfy "the demands of those who were not afraid to trust the elective system even in the lower schools. Almost every party was willing to vote for this, upon one condition--that it, the party, might put its own valuation on each study and have its own way as to how much value should be required for admission." So that the whole question of electives in admission requirements shook itself down to the practical...