Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decided to elect the captain by mail. All "H" men who were in the University at the close of last year will vote by mail for one of the Senior letter men in College this year. In case the leading man does not receive a majority vote, a second ballot will be taken on the two leading men. It will be impossible to include "H. A. A." men on the voting list...
...supplementary nominations by petition, or inherently in Harvard students, let it be remedied immediately. If nominations in a general class convention would be better, let the change be made; if a system of having candidates named and seconded in primaries, thinned out by direct voting on the convention ballot, and four or five successful names placed on the final, ballot, would prevent such a shameful showing as on Tuesday, let us adopt that system. But whatever the means, let us take steps to put an end to the alarming indifference exhibited in the recent elections...
...Junior elections held yesterday Wendell Davis of New York was chosen president with a vote of 178, as against 227 votes cast for Thomas Helme Mills, the lowest number winning according to the Australian preferential ballot system...
...wholesale regard for law and order coupled with an exaggerated emotional sense of justice do not always work smoothly in double harness. Doubtless, to the legal mind, an outbreak of mob violence is the uspeakable; correction of evils should be undertaken by the ballot--no matter whether the base offender against the primal law of harmony in the state die of old age in the penitentiary while awaiting trial for his deeds. Doubtless, Mr. Fairbanks, you are right...
...result of the straw ballot on the League of Nations held in the University yesterday, 699 men voted for the League as it stands out of a total of 1686 ballots cast. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alone returned a positive majority for the League in its present from; but, on the other hand, in all branches of the University a decisively larger number voted for it than for any of the three other choices offered on the ballot. The total for the League, with reservations such as will not recommit the Treaty to the Peace conference...