Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation-wide intercollegiate ballot on the League and Treaty to be held today, the colleges are making a double contribution. They are conducting the first extensive referendum at a time when the sentiment of the country on the question of the Treaty is of great importance, not only to Americans, but to the entire world. And, further, they are making possible an estimation of the opinion of the college man; the man who must take the lead in the government of the United States during the next generation...
...voting today will be interpreted in many different ways. There will be a discussion of its sectional significance, of the point of view of the large and of the small college, and so on, ad infinitum. The forms in which the questions are submitted on the ballot are necessarily imperfect--it would not be possible to draw up a ballot representing all shades of opinion in the country--and will be construed by various factions in various ways. But on the real issue--Treaty or no Treaty--there can be no mistaking the verdict...