Word: hare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston University players will face the University handicapped by lack of experience in playing as a single unit, since this is the first year that B. U. has attempted to take part in intercollegiate hockey. Coach J. J. O'Hare, has, however, some very good individual players from which to pick his sextet...
...system of proportional representation--and there are several besides the Hare--gets rid of both these evils by combining the good points of the two old systems and rejecting their bad ones. P. R. simply throws several single-member districts together into one electing several members, but it allows each voter to cast only one vote. This results in giving all the voters in the district an equal share in the election of the several members and in giving each party or united element the number of seats it deserves...
...this third weakness of our old methods that is the chief basis, so far as the mechanics of elections are concerned, of the undue power of the "machine" in American politics. The Hare system remedies this weakness. The method is simple: the Hare system permits, though it does not require, the voter to indicate on his ballot which candidates he wants his one vote to count for in case it cannot help elect the candidate marked as first choice, which one he wants it to count for in case in cannot help elect his first choice or his second...
This feature of the Hare system makes it possible for the voters of a party to control the party "machine" conveniently and without giving to politics more time than can reasonably be given by men and women who seek nothing in polities for themselves...
...Hare system of proportional representation is of special interest of Americans now. We are learning the advantages, from the points of view of efficiency in administration, of having the chief administrator of city chosen by the city council on a professional basis and for an indefinite term, as our school superintendents are chosen by the school committee instead of being elected at the polls. But we are not ready to entrust the selection of the chief administrator the city manager, as he is called to a council elected by the old ward system. And if is certainly not very democratic...