Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...universities in the United States, will command unusual interest. Sponsored by the editors of the college newspapers of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, the plan has already become a leading topic of discussion in academic circles, and from now until the date set for the taking of the vote, a joint committee will be busy at the Harvard Endowment Fund offices, 165 Broadway, New York, arranging the details...
...reason why the vote will be worth watching is that the promoters have taken pains to secure the approval of Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock to the form of the question. Originally it was proposed that each voter should be asked to mark his preference among four propositions, covering straight ratification and rejection, ratification with the Senate majority reservations, and ratification by means of compromise. But Senator Lodge felt that his position could be fairly provided for only...
...thus necessitated, brings the list of propositions up to six. If, against them, any considerable proportion of the 35,000 or 40,000 faculty persons and the 200,000 undergraduates, in American college and universities, record themselves sincerely, the result will doubtless surpass in interest and importance any straw vote ever taken before. For the colleges and universities offer unusual facilities for organizing the voting, just as they provide a body of voters whose opinion will be peculiarly worth noting, especially as the faculty vote and the student vote will be tabulated separately. And the number and diffusion...