Word: ballotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postal ballot for Overseers of the University, an important change in the method of choosing the members of this governing board, will go into effect this year...
...regulations provide that the alumni may vote for Overseers either by marking a ballot which will be mailed about April 15 to all alumni eligible to vote, and by returning it on or before Commencement, or else by voting in Cambridge on Commencement Day at the polls which will be held for the present as heretofore...
...recommendation of a committee of the Associated Harvard Clubs headed by President Eliot. An act of the Massachusetts General Court, approved last March, and later assented to by the Governing Boards, gave the University authorities the right to make a change. It was decided to introduce a postal ballot, but to retain also the balloting at the polls on Commencement Day, as this has become a traditional feature of the Commencement program which many graduates would be loath to give...
...year term is therefore as follows: Early in the winter the standing committee on nominations of the Alumni Association nominates some 20 candidates (or more if there are extra vacancies in the Board to be filled). The names of these men are placed on a preliminary postal ballot sent about February first to all graduates eligible to vote. These preliminary ballots must be returned by April first, and the names of the ten candidates (or more if there are extra vacancies to be filled) who receive the largest number of votes will be placed on the final ballot, together with...
...final postal ballot, containing these ten or more names, will be sent about April 15 to all alumni eligible to vote. No ballot so voted will be counted unless received by 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Commencement Day. Also the polls will be open at Massachusetts Hall on Commencement Day from 10 until 3. Arrangements will be made so that no men who have already voted by mail may vote at the polls, and no ballot received by mail on Commencement Day from a man who has already voted at the polls will be counted. The five...