Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...were both candidates for the position of captain of the nine. The vote showed a large majority in favor of Mr. Dean. The class then decided after some, noise, but without a dissenting vote, to march in the Republican procession. Seven candidates for marshals were then nominated and a ballot showed the following result: Williams, 105, Longstreth, 56; Burnett, 50; Goldthwaite, 39; Flint, 37; Weld, 30; Crosby, 27; Clark, 27. Messrs. Williams, Longstreth and Burnett were declared elected. Mr. Bass then resigned the position of captain of the eleven, and was followed by Mr. Dean of the nine. Some...
...Edgar Pierce, Mr. S. Pitts Duffield, of Exeter, and Mr. N. Rantoul, of Hopkinson's School, were then nominated for president. It was voted to take an informal ballot. The chair appointed Sturgis, '90, Burnett, '91, and Longworth, '91, to act as tellers and to receive the ballots as the voters passed down stairs. The result was: Rantoul, 126; Pierce. 52; Duffield, 18. The vote was made formal and Mr. Rantoul declared elected...
...being to have a good time, and not to make a political demonstration, as the matter has always been decided by the senior class in the past, and action on the part of the other classes has not been customary, it was moved that three marshals be elected by ballot to make the necessary arrangements...
...candidates for the Yale freshman foot-ball eleven met Monday evening to elect a captain. There were several ballots, and on the final ballot Mr. Funk, '91 Sheffield, was elected. Mr. Funk is an Andover man and played two years on the Andover eleven. The candidates for the team are working steadily and the prospects are that a strong eleven will be made...