Word: hare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continent--except for certain elections in Denmark--fall short, in the opinion of British and American students of these matter, in giving the individual voter too little freedom to vote effectively outside of regular party lines. In English-speaking countries, therefore, a different system is favor. This is the "Hare system" of P. R., otherwise called P. R. with the "single transferable vote." This system is already in use for parliamentary elections in several parts of the British dominions and for councils in several hundred English-speaking cities, including Winnipeg, Ashtabula (Ohio), and Sacramento. In November it was adopted...
...Hare system of P. R., to which I shall confine the rest of this short article, has been developed to get rid of three crying evils in our old methods of election representative bodies...
Yost's selections: Ends, Shevlin of Yale and Hardwick of the University: Tackles, Hart of Princeton and West of Colgate: Guards, Heffelfinger of Yale and Hare of Penn.: Center, Schulz of Michigan: Quarter, Eckersall of Chicago; Backs. Heston of Michigan, Oliphant of West Point, and Thorpe of Carlisle...
Warner's team: Ends, Hinkley of Yale and Herron of Pittsburg; Tackles Lea of Princeton and Henry of Washington and Jefferson: Guards, Heffelfinger of Yale and Hare of Penn; Center, Peck of Pittsburgh: Quarterback, Huntington of Colgate; Backs, Thorpe of Carlisle, Mahan of the University, and Heston of Michigan...
Heisman: Ends. Exerdine of Carlisle and Shevlin of Yale; Tackles, Schute of Michigan and Cutts of the University: Guards, Heffelfinger of Yale and Hare of Penn: Center, Schulz of Michigan; Quarter, Eckersall of Chicago; Backs, Thorpe and Guyon of Carlisle, and Coy of Yale...