Word: election
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Class Day Committee. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Class Committee, the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Photograph Committee, and the seven candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Class Day Committee shall be declared elected. Each Committee shall elect its own Chairman...
...provision in the constitution of the Phi Beta Kappa Society under which these men were elected reads as follows: "In order to meet exceptional cases where persons have shown distinguished excellence in scholarship, but have failed, for reasons not affecting their good characters to come within the requirements of section 5 (which describes the procedure in the first elections), the immediate members may elect additional persons from their own class not exceeding five in number...
...Freshman debating club will meet in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 7 o'clock to elect officers for this half-year. The club has 35 members at present, and it is important that all attend the meeting. Other men of the Freshman class are urged to join the club before the spring debating trials...
From the statistics it is evident that most of the scholars elect the literary and legal training for which Oxford is famous, rather than the scientific courses in which the English University is known to be less efficient. Again, we see that our Rhodes scholars tend decidedly towards the classics, while the German Rhodes scholars favor economics. Also the report says: "the process of selection does not reach the highest types of scholarship in either the (British) colonies, Germany or America." Mr. Rhodes did not intend to obtain primarily the best scholars and it is safe to say that results...
...correct the present hit-or-miss method the Executive Committee of the Student Council proposes itself to draw up and submit the list of nominees. Following somewhat the lines of upper-class elections, additional nominations to this list may be made by petitions signed by 35 members of the class. Also the elections will be held under the Australian ballot system at the Lodge of the 1877 Gate. Thus, not only will the voters have an opportunity to consider, propose and finally elect the best men, but a decent formality will be given a hitherto slap-dash election...