Word: fives
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...render this plan more efficient is to reduce the number of nominees for whom one man may vote. On every ballot now presented there is a long list of men, many of whom are in all probability entirely unknown to the voter. If there are but five men to be elected, the voter is sure to be able to choose more competently. This system has proved successful wherever it has been tried...
...Baldwin has already made several attempts to reach the North Pole. He served as meteorologist in the North Greenland expedition of Commodore Peary in 1893-94, and in the Wellmann polar expedition five years later. He established four depots of supplies from the south to the north coast of Franz-Josef Land as basis for a proposed dash for the Pole and three safety stations on the northeast coast for use on the return march. He was the first leader selected to head the Ziegler polar expedition...
...government by commission. The report alleges that entrusting such large powers to one man as has been the case with the mayor of Boston, has not proved wise and expedient in practice, and recommends that the executive branch of the city government be vested in a council of five persons. President Eliot is a member of the committee chosen and will be the first speaker...
...Saturday, the shooting team will hold a shoot with the Norfolk Hunt Club at Medfield. The team will be composed of five men, each man shooting at 50 birds in two strings...
...charge is neglecting its duty. The Trophy Room, which is so rich in interesting relics of Harvard's early victories, contains hardly anything won in late years, though we have repeatedly beaten all our rivals in baseball, and have many Dartmouth, Brown and Carlisle footballs. Yet in the last five years only one cup and one banner have been added. Furthermore, we find that eight football trophies--among them that of our 1890 victory over Yale, the tarnished Ardsley Golf Cup, and several banners, including that won by the 1899 crew at New London--are hidden away in a dusty...