Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...already done so. - (1) Secession. - (2) Slavery. - (3) Chicago Anarchists: J. E. Gary in Century XIV, 803 (Apr. 1893) - (b) They are doing so today. - (1) Movement toward restricted immigration. - (2) Scientific charity. - (2) Civil Service. - (4) Universal education: W. L. Wilson's Boston Lecture, Nov. 12, 1894. - (5) Ballot Reform. - (6) Social reform. - (7) Overthrow of Tammany...
...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 formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first informal 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 formal ballot...
...ballot taken in Memorial Hall Monday evening was against the plan recommended by the board of directors, by a vote of 360 to 318. This is a practical endorsement of the scheme proposed by the Corporation, for a club table system throughout the hall with 1 1-2 men to a seat...
...candidate for reelection. There is also a vacancy to be filled for the unexpired term of two years, caused by the death of Professor H. W. Torrey. The following have received the highest number of votes of the alumni of Harvard and their names will appear on the official ballot: Class 1875, Augustus Hemenway; 1861, C. C. Beaman; 1851; S. A. Green; 1871, William Lawrence; 1869, F. D. Millet; 1864, E. P. Seaver; 1876, F. C. Lowell; 1865, J. R. Chadwick; 1878, John Homans, 2d; 1861, A. H. Hardy; 1848, T. C. Clarke; 1858, G. A. Wentworth...