Word: formality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HERALD-CRIMSON:-It seems to me that the committee of the senior class have adopted a wise resolution as to the dropping of candidates at the class election. Last year the committee recommended that the candidates having less than ten votes, etc., be dropped at the end of each formal ballot; but this recommendation was not approved by the class and there was no dropping at all. Before the end of the meeting it was universally admitted, I think, that it would have been better to drop the names as the committee recommended. It would seem advisable, then...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in eight equal sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
6.The first ballot for every officer shall be informal; after every alternate formal ballot, viz., the 2d, 4th, 6th, and c., the candidate having the smallest number of votes, and all other candidates having less than ten votes, shall be dropped...
...election approaches, for a few of the leading members of a party to assemble and hold a sort of informal caucus, at which it is decided what candidates will best represent the party. The gentlemen whose names are mentioned prominently in this connection are then notified, and a formal caucus is held, at which the nominee receiving the largest number of votes is declared to be the regular party candidate. At this caucus it may be said that the one who stays long enough to tire his opponents is the one who receives the nomination Next in order comes...
...Brown juniors have handed the corporation a formal resolution asking that the marking system in the college be discontinued, on the ground that it encourages superficial work, discourages hard-working but not brilliant students, prompts to dishonesty and fails of necessity to indicate a student's true worth...