Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different ballot at the Medical School brought out a black and white result, with 46 percent all for the plan and 33 percent all against. Only five percent voted a straight "no" in the Houses and Union...
Delayed by printing difficulties, the Student Council Food Relief Committee ballot on student menu cuts to help alleviate the European food shortage will be conducted tomorrow at noon, instead of this morning as originally planned...
Miss Gertrude Goss, who could not be reached for comment last night, is the director of the 34 Smithies and the originator of the water ballot...
...ballot will consist of a total of six items, upon which students will be asked to vote yes or no, depending on willingness to cooperate on any or all of the six measures. Included for consideration are the following proposals: elimination or breads for dinner; a milk limit of one glass per meal; elimination of cakes or cookies with ice cream; 15 percent curtailments in meat and fish supplies; removal of dessert from noon meal; elimination of all wheat cereals...
Although "it cannot be claimed that the wheat saved by Harvard alone will be sent abroad," a statement prepared by the Committee to be distributed with the ballot declares that the saving by Harvard, "along with the action of other colleges--notably Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, and Radcliffe--as part of a general program will mean less demand on domestic grain markets. This in turn will result in larger supplies available for transshipment abroad...