Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Yesterday the very small number of 157 members of the class of 1922, and 207 from 1923, voted in the class election for officers. According to resolutions adopted last spring, no election is valid unless at least sixty per cent, of the class votes. Both totals of ballots cast form less than thirty per cent of the class and the voting will have to be continued until the required number of ballots are cast. Due to the Presidential straw-ballot being held today, the voting will be continued tomorrow. The polls will be open from eight...
...frequently means five minutes trouble,--time which they may perhaps more pleasantly spend in berating the conditions which give them no hand in the administration of college activities. As it seems conclusively shown, however, that the more active members of the classes never fail to find time to vote, and, being human, invariably vote for their friends, the sole method of getting out of the rut into which college polls have fallen is to continue the present more or less compulsory participation in the elections...
...CRIMSON will conduct a Presidential Straw Ballot today, in which all members of the University, including graduate students and Faculty members, may vote. The CRIMSON will hold the ballot under the auspices of the Eastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association. Similar ballots are being conducted by other leading college papers...
...elections today will be the first to be conducted under the new amendment to the class constitutions which provides that at least two-thirds of the members of each class must vote in order to make the elections valid...
...Voting is a privilege; nobody is required to cast a ballot in any election. Voting is also a barometer by which a man's interest in what goes on about him may be measured in no uncertain manner. He either cares about his leaders or is entirely indifferent to them. He either votes or lets somebody else elect his own officers. This is "vote week" at the University and both elections will show the interest of Harvard men in their own business. The class elections today directly concern the members of 1922 and 1923; the straw vote tomorrow concerns...