Word: australian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voting was done by the Australian ballot, and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for each office was elected. The number of men that voted was 294, but a few blank ballots in the election of Vice-President and the Student Council Member slightly lowered the total vote for these two offices...
...voting booth for the election of the 1921 class officers and the representative to the Student Council will be open today in the Standish Hall Common Room from 9 until 6 o'clock. The system of preferential voting and the Australian ballot will be used in the elections, as set forth in Article 3, Sections 7 and 8, of the class constitution. All men who entered College with the class of 1921 and who have not voted with another class, will be eligible to cast their ballots today...
...words were found written on the margin of a book of poems taken from the body of a dead Australian soldier, who, in his dying, had accounted for six of the enemy...
...awakened us from our dream. The fascination of German efficiency and German philosophy no longer enthralls us. The peril that we in time, with other nations, might have been wholly "kulturized" is averted. This is one great service that the war has done the world. The Australian soldier realized it, and so felt justified as he fought his last hard battle to the end. --Chicago Evening Post
...counting the votes, a first choice counts one, a second two, and a third three, the candidates receiving the lowest total being elected. Any ballot on which all the candidates for office have not been voted upon will be declared invalid for that office. The Australian ballot sys- tem will be used in voting for members of the student Council...