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Word: balloting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots will be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in 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 ballot he shall be declared elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules Governing the Election of Class Day Officers. | 11/13/1895 | See Source »

...After the first ballot all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidates receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot. If there are but three candidates, no one of them shall be dropped until after the second ballot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rules Governing the Election of Class Day Officers. | 11/13/1895 | See Source »

...interesting contest is being carried on at the fair in the Madison Square Garden, New York. A large American flag is being balloted for by adherents of the various colleges. The college that has the most ballots cast for it wins the flag. Up to Friday of last week Yale was ahead, when Harvard who was second picked up and at last accounts stood several ballots ahead of her rival. The price for each ballot is ten cents, and the contest will close on Saturday next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Flag Contest. | 10/28/1895 | See Source »

...disfranchisement of the negro would have a disastrous effect: No. Am. Rev., Vol. 153, pp. 653, 654.- (a) On the character of the negro.- (1) He would lose his incentive to good citizenship.- (2) He would lose the educating influence of the ballot.- (b) On the peace of the south.- (1) It would increase race prejudice.- (2) It would make the negro rebellious.- (3) All attempts to juggle the law in the end have a bad effect upon the community.- (c) The prosperity of the South...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH 6. | 10/9/1895 | See Source »

...result of the voting by the alumni for nominations for the Board of Overseers is as follows: The whole number of ballots is 1967. The twelve candidates receiving the highest number of votes, whose names will therefore be placed upon the official ballot at Commencement, are: Theodore Roosevelt '80, Edmund Wetmore '60, Charles Francis Adams '56, Robert Bacon '60, Robert M. Morse '57, Robert Grant '73, Francis H. Appleton '69, Sigourney Butler '77, David Williams Cheever '52, Thomas C. Clark '48, Alpheus H. Hardy '61, Winslow Warren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Overseers. | 6/6/1895 | See Source »

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