Word: highest
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...other years the president then in office shall call a meeting in the first week of November for the purpose of electing a nominating committee of ten. At this meeting there shall be three ballots: on the first the twenty-five men receiving the highest number of votes shall be retained and voted upon in a second ballot. On the second ballot the fifteen highest shall be retained and voted upon for the third ballot to determine the final...
...reality the power to be of service to a class can only be acquired in its fullest extent through long experience in service. To forbid re-election is not only to make it possible that able men may be displaced; it is to make it impossible that the highest efficiency shall be developed...
...officers. Therefore, while it is much to be desired that a way should be found to replace such men as give no promise, it seems all important that no hasty and prohibitive scheme should be allowed to prevent the moulding in each class of officers of the highest worth. JAMES A. FIELD...
...other years the president then in office shall call a meeting in the first week of November for the purpose of electing a nominating committee of ten. At this meeting there shall be three ballots: on the first the twenty-five men receiving the highest number of votes shall be retained and voted upon in a second ballot. On the second ballot the fifteen highest shall be retained and voted upon for the third ballot to determine the final...
...dissent from my view will say that the preparatory school and the first half of the Freshman year bring the worthy men to the top. To a considerable extent this is true, but the preparatory school leader it not always the man who stands highest in our esteem after three years in college...