Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision was made on the fourth ballot, by an elimination process. Thirty-two graduating members met at Phillips Brooks House at 2 p.m. on Saturday to discuss the second-year students on the publication. The second-year men eliminated on each ballot joined the group, and at 4 p.m. Sunday the final decision was made...
Within a stretch of three weeks the senior class marks two separate ballots to elect its Permanent Class and Class Day Committees. The Permanent Class Committee interest is high and numerous petitions pour in, producing a healthy-sized ballot. But most seniors think the Class Day election is a place for classmates losing out in the earlier vote to try again, and for others afraid of the competition of the Permanent Committee election to sneak into class officialdom...
Because of this stigma, plus the rather concentrated work of the Committee, few seniors run in the Class Committee election. This year, for example, only 19 names and faces will appear on the Class Day ballot compared to 71 for the Permanent Class election. This is illogical since the two groups are quite similar in character: they are both service committees, and the qualifications--competence and the confidence of the graduating class--are the same...
Presented for ratification along with the ballot, will be the Senior Class constitution...
Judging the debate were Erwin Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, and L. C. S. Barber, British Consul General of Boston. The third ballot was rendered by the audience...