Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Last week the Freshman class held a meeting for the purpose of deciding whether it should row Cornell or not. From the very outset it was evident that there was not a little opposition to the project, and when the final ballot was taken, it was ascertained that about two thirds of the men present favored the plan of rowing Cornell, and one third opposed...
...finally voted to refer Columbia's challenge to the Executive Committee, and to take an informal ballot to ascertain the sentiment of the meeting. On this ballot a majority voted in favor of accepting the challenge. The matter is thus left in the hands of the Executive Committee, who promise to arrive at a decision as quickly as possible. They will have to answer three questions: Can we expect to always so fix the time and place of the Columbia race as to make it subservient to the Yale race? If not, do we care to row Columbia every year...
...matter for regret that a gentleman could not have been chosen captain of the Freshman foot-ball team without having a man, antagonistic to him and imbittered by defeat, make a charge against some of his fellow-classmates of "stuffing the ballot-box." We presume, however, that the gentleman, when he made such an ungentlemanly statement, based on no proof whatsoever, and in a manner so much to be condemned, was disappointed and excited at the defeat of his candidate, and did not realize the bad taste, to say the least, of his action. It was an accusation insulting...
...proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question so important as this ought to have been decided by ballot. The assertion that the majority were not competent to vote, as some allege, is rank nonsense: every man's opinion is sound when the stomach is concerned. We say, then, that the compromise in itself is a satisfactory one; but that the action of the Directors, in not consulting the wishes of the body...
...stormy class elections of '74, when the system of elections by societies was in the full glory of its ineffectiveness. The Class of '75 followed with its plan of allotment of officers to the different society and non-society elements, while approximating to an open election in the actual ballot for officers. I think it may be safely said that '75 made the most of this scheme of election, and by making the committee on allotment of offices individually representative of a fixed numerical constituency, it secured itself a more peaceful election than some of its predecessors. But the inherent...