Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voting for the class officers, the President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer will be according to the preferential system--that is, the first, second, and third choice must be indicated on the ballot. In the voting for the Student Council Member, however, one man only may be designated...
Another important group are the 15,000,000 women who soon will have the ballot and who need and want instruction in national issues before they will be able to properly use the ballot. Into another group Mr. Claxton put the 2.500,000 young men and women who become of age each year and of whom but a small proportion are privileged to go through high school...
...face, as far as that goes, the ballot shows an extraordinarily even division. Almost equal thirds stand respectively for full ratification on the Wilson basis, for absolute refusal to accept that basis or a compromise, and for a compromise settlement. The last proposal runs a few thousands ahead of the other two. Did this division furnish a true sample of the state of mind of the whole nation, we should be forced to find in it an evidence of pronounced and central cleavage. Anyway, the vote is two to one against the League in its present shape...
...plurality of nearly 500 votes the University decided in favor of Proposition 4 in the nation-wide ballot held yesterday to determine the opinion of college students and faculty members in regard to the League of Nations and the Peace Treaty. Proposition 4 was in favor of a compromise between the Lodge and Democratic reservations in order to facilitate the ratification of the Treaty. A total of 2,455 votes was cast of which 2,367 were by students and 88 by Faculty members. 1,113 students and 56 instructors signified their desire for a compromise as stated in proposition...
...tired of parliamentary bickerings and talk; the sentiment everywhere today is "get the Treaty through." Saturday was marked by a declaration of peace by the other great belligerent nations. We, as a country, are left dangling in mid-air. A tremendous majority for Proposition 4, as submitted on the ballot, alone can show that college men have appreciated the issue. They must not fail...