Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls. Rose drapes and beige furniture had transformed the gym into a warmly decorated chamber with seats for 692 and perfect acoustics. Its council table held hidden microphones, its glassed-in balcony a gleaming mass of radio, motion picture and television equipment. It even had a specially built steel ballot box, equipped, against any eventuality, with a padlock...
...Freshmen Class Committee was elected yesterday when 320 of approximately 650 eligible members of the Class of '49 went to the polls at the various House dining hall ballot boxes. Primarily chosen to make arrangements for the annual Freshman Jubilee to be held during April or May, the new committee will hold its first meeting Monday evening at 7 o'clock in the council room of Phillips Brooks House...
...Class of '49 will pick ten names from a 27-man ballot to fill out the Freshman Class Committee when they go to the polls in the House dining halls Thursday noon, Arthur C. McGill '48, of the Student Council, announced last night...
...system of rotating ballots, devised by the Council and designed to eliminate any advantages that might be received from men unfamiliar with the candidates checking off the first ten names on the ballot, will be used for the first time Thursday...
Initially the names on the ballots will be arranged alphabetically, but after a prescribed number have been printed in this order, the first five names will be moved to the bottom of the list. According to McGill, this process will be repeated, the top five names moving to the bottom, until each group has been placed near the top of the ballot...