Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wets and half-wets of the University have met the enemy and he is theirs. The bone drys were somewhat stronger than the repealing wets but the supporters of light wines and beers swept the field; and that in spite of the fact that the questions on the ballot were so framed as to favor mechanically the dry contingent. In short in every University body except the Graduate Schools exclusive of the Law and Medical, the moderates outvoted the extremists of either wing...
Wording of Ballot Aids Drys...
...ballot was worded it militated against the success of the wets by not offering them any proposition on which they could unite their forces. Even the light wine and beer proposition failed to attract a good many wets who had voted for repeal...
About 350 postcards were sent out last week to Professors, tutors, deans, and lecturers in the University, asking them to vote by return card on the same triple prohibition ballot on which the rest of the University will vote today. By six o'clock last night 189 postcard ballots had been received at the CRIMSON Building. Votes not returned before tonight will not be counted in the University total...
...ballot is worded...