Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wishes of Ninety-four in regard to her officers, there should be as many nominations as there are men who deserve recognition for the services they have done to the class and University. And then from these nominations let each voter be man enough to cast his ballot according to his own conviction and that alone...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots will be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in 9 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...
...meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association on Friday night, it was found impossible to transact any business beyond the arrangement for this fall's schedule. To the great dissatisfaction of Princeton and Pennsylvania, Wesleyan stood so firmly with Yale on the undergraduate rule that every ballot taken resulted in a tie, two to two. Pennsylvania proposed in succession the rescinding of the undergraduate rule, the substitution for it of the rules adopted by Harvard and Pennsylvania, and the removal of it from the playing rules; but all these measures were defeated, and the meeting had to adjourn without coming...
...course was an outcome of the discussion over the "undergraduate rule." The committee have reported several rules regarding eligibility on the various university teams, which they wish to incorporate in all the constitutions. The committee ask that a vote of the university be taken on these suggestions, by ballot, before Wednesday June...