Word: australian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Subject 19 under History, the "Australian Ballot System," has been excluded from the list of topics...
...most urgent reforms is the ballot reform. An Australian ballot system has been adopted in a number of states, and will undoubtedly spread rapidly over the whole union. But will this Australian system do away with bribery? The experience of Australia and England tends to prove the contrary. Closely connected to a ballot reform is a much needed reform in the registration. In most states the registration laws are extremely lax; the registration lists are changed very rarely, and the result is that men who are dead or have changed their residence, shall figure on the old lists. This naturally...
...evening, in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, an account of his most exciting adventures among the cannibal aboriginees of Australia. His experiences have been the subject of several interesting addresses in England and in this country, made doubly so by the illustration of the lecture with Australian views. Although the notice of Professor Lumboltz's address has been made rather suddenly, the variety and peculiarity of his adventures should cause a considerable number of persons to desire to hear him this evening. The lecture will begin at 7.30 o'clock...
...three questions to be presented for choice of subject for the next debate are as follows:- Resolved: That the Australian system of electing public officials should be adopted in the United States. Resolved: That the Government should use a part of the surplus in enlarging our ocean carrying trade. Resolved: That the United States should maintain the independence of the Samoan Islands...
...Wigmore, H. U. '83, L. S., '87, has just published a very noticeable book on the "Australian Ballot System." Mr. Wigmore was recently awarded the one thousand dollar prize offered by the Medico-Legal Society of New York for the best essay on the subject: "Circumstantial Evidence in Poison Cases...