Word: australian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of the Freshman class officers by Australian ballot will be held in the Standish Hall Common Room today from 9 o'clock in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. All men who entered with the class 1919 are eligible to vote...
...Junior class elections held yesterday Charles Allerton Coolidge, Jr., of Boston, was elected president with a total of 516 points against 628 cast for H. B. Cabot, Jr., the lowest number electing by the Australian preferential ballot system. The vote for vice-president resulted in the election of John Irton Wylde, of Boston, defeating G. C. Caner, 361 to 383. Robert Baldwin, of West Newton, was elected secretary-treasurer by 453 against 479 points cast for Francis Higginson Cabot...
...amateur-professional athletic carnival at Mechanics Building on Saturday night, Alfred Shrubb, British long-distance champion and coach of the University cross-country team, finished third in the ten-mile marathon race, 3 laps behind Coach Queal of the Yale cross-country team, who defeated Fitzgerald, the Australian runner by 5 yards. The time of the winner was 54 minutes, 39 3-5 seconds. F. T. Donahue uC., representing the B. A. A., finished third in the 600-yard run with a 4-yard handicap, his time being 1 minute, 20 seconds. W. H. Meanix '16 did not start...
...Regulation of Wages in Australia, especially by Wages Boards." Some attention will also be given to the working of the system of compulsory arbitration in Australia and New Zealand. Professor Hammond recently spent a year in Australia making an extended study of the history and working of the Australian labor laws...
After visiting New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides during June and July in connection with his Shaler Memorial Study of Coral Reefs in the South Pacific, Professor W. M. Davis attended during August the Australian meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. At Sydney he spoke before the Section of Geography on the "Coast of New Caledonia" and before the Section of Geology on "A New Evidence for Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs...