Word: electer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences announces that those who expect to receive the degree of Master of Arts or Doctor of Philosophy at the coming Commencement should assemble in Harvard 1, Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, to elect Marshals and Committees and to take such other action as may be necessary...
Once more the unquestioned superiority of the glorious daily over the lugubrious bi-weekly has been asserted; once more the boastful members of Lampy have had their hopes and incidentally, with especial reference to Captain Buel and President-elect Cromble, their astral bodies--trailed in the dust cut up by CRIMSON skates; once more they have marched sadly back to the home of freaks on Mt. Auburn street to drown their sorrows, and hope for better days...
...well paid, appointed to serve during good behavior and efficiency, and entitled to a pension, after reasonably long service, or on disability. The judge should always be the principal person in the court-room. He is in England; often he is not in this country. The American practice of electing judges for short terms has seriously impaired in many states the quality of judges and their position in the community. The very voters that elect the judges easily acquire the habit of distrusting them...
...Faculty of Harvard University has paid Woodrow Wilson a distinguished compliment. It has placed his "Congressional Government" on the list of obligatory reading in its governmental course, and it is now being studied by 400 students. But how does that body know that the views of the president-elect are the same now as they were when he wrote that work? The book appeared so long ago that it had been forgotten by most of those who were familiar with his writings. It was written in 1884, when he was 28 years old, was the first of his books...
...Meeting of St. Paul's Society to elect officers for the year of 1913-14, in Brooks House...