Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present dilemma is the result of the Campus Referendum last week at New Haven by the Student Council. In the first place, out of 1608 men in the three upper classes, only 772 voted. Secondly, the ballot revealed that the supporters of a return to Faculty supervision were in a six-to-one minority, while the advocates of no supervision totalled a comfortable plurality. The present Honor System was indifferently supported. Finally, however, when the Student Council discovered from the Dean that there was not a chance in a million of the Faculty's ever approving the absence...
...anathematized as the home of all that is corrupt, where vice abounds unchecked by conniving officialdom and the people are at the mercies of bombs and poisonous liquors. So the churchmen gather to pray that the growing pains of the turbulent city may be abated and that the ballot box may no longer yield a forced crop of magistrates. But yesterday's declaration of faith seems hardly the means by which to procure the metamorphosis at a time when gangsters scoff at the impotence of the righteous and a strong, materialistic hand is needed, rather than an aesthetic gesture...
Voting will begin at several polling places in the University on Monday, March 19, and probably will continue for two days. Any member of the University is eligible to cast a ballot. The results of each day's vote will be published in the CRIMSON...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
...City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable to me;" hoping that it was wise to have let word go out, and it did go last week, that Candidate Smith will withdraw from the convention if not nominated by the tenth ballot; hoping that his refusal to fly with Col. Lindbergh ("No flying for me," he said) would not make him less popular...