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...NOMINATIONS. (a) Every nomination must be made in writing, signed by not less than fifteen eligible senior electors, enclosed in a sealed envelope marked only "Senior Nominaton," and left at 44 College House before 7 p. m. of Saturday, December 11th. An elector may sign one nomination paper for every office to be filled, and no more...
...office proper (for example, a marshalship) could still come up for a committee place. If all-day voting by the Australian ballot be adopted, this balloting on two different days, while a little more inconvenient perhaps to the tellers, would be no great hardship on the individual elector who who could vote between lectures without sacrifice of time. This must still seem far preferable to the antiquated method of spending an evening, and perhaps a good part of the night in a meeting where speeches must of necessity be forbidden and where most of the time is taken...
...Rich then closed his argument by proposing a system of election, wherein the country should be divided into electoral districts and each elector chosen separately, to vote separately, not by states as at present. The proposal of this system he claimed to be a very strong argument for the negative...
...test-case in the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, as to whether a Yale student had the right to become an elector of New Haven, has just been decided in the negative. The ground for the decision was that he did not intend to make the town his home...
Heidelberg University is one of the oldest in all Germany, and has had an eventful history. It was founded as early as 1356 by the elector Rupert, but did not acquire the sanction of the Pope, then indispensable to institutions of learning, until 1386. It was modeled after the Paris University of more ancient date, and rejoiced in no less than four faculties, who governed and controlled all matters relating to the college, both financial and education. For many years it was without a library, but this was added by one of the later electors. During the stormy period...