Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only One Postal Ballot...
...used as usual. Each elector shall indicate his order of preference for all the candidates for each office except that of Student Council member. A first choice shall count one, a second two, and so on. The candidate receiving the lowest numerical total shall be declared elected. Any ballot on which all the candidates for any office have not been voted upon shall be declared invalid for that office. The election is not declared valid unless 60 per cent of the class vote. Polls will be opened at Sever Hall from 8.30 to 2.30 o'clock, and at Standish Hall...
...most useful and interesting books in the world, two of them made a radical departure from precedent by failing to include the Bible in their lists. Of a possible sixty volumes, there were more than thirty different single choices, showing that even professors cannot always agree in a literary ballot. One of the men is said to have voted for a volume written by himself...
Only one postal ballot for choice of Overseers of the University will be taken this year, as a result of action of the executive committee of the Alumni Association, which was approved by the Governing Boards of the University. This does away with the preliminary postal ballot for nomination of Overseers...
...last year the Alumni Association, through a special committee, nominated each year 20 men for Overseers of the University. A postal ballot was then taken, the result of which reduced the number of candidates from twenty to ten. Finally, on Commencement Day, the election of five of these ten candidates took place at a polling place in the Yard. The final choice was thus entirely in the hands of those able to be in Cambridge at Commencement...