Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The shooting is over. Freshmen will not troop past the polls today as the by-laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are...
The landslide leads to interesting speculations. There is no reason to believe that the Class of 1942 is more anti-election than previous freshman classes. There is rather contrary evidence if the circulation of last year's abolition petition--which was much wider than that of the present one--means...
The sick man was Subhas Chander Bose, who last month scored a coup by engineering his own election to the Congress Presidency against Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's wishes. But what the Congress did last week made President Bose sicker than ever. Mahatma Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly...
If elections were to be abolished by the decision rendered today, it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand. The referendum comes when the whole class is...
The fact that the ballot box has been stuffed must not prevent freshmen from standing up and fighting for the abolition of a meaningless form. The present system of elections makes a farce of democracy. The duly elected representatives of the class have absolutely no function but to appoint the...