Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definite schedules for the three major winter sports, hockey, basketball, and squash, and the plotted minor sports of second division basketball and bowling, will probably be released today by Samborski, with Monday being the latest possible date...
Practice has been general this week, as the eight Houses, all of which are expected to enter teams for the major sports, try to organize in the few practice hours allotted...
...sweeping indictment of the draft, coupled with a call for a University-wide United Anti-Draft Committee, emerged from the first major policy meeting of the young Progressives of Harvard yesterday...
...Both major defects would be almost completely corrected by the Lodge Plan. But it will take years of plugging and popularizing before the Plan is passed. Determined opposition has already appeared from two sides. Many persons, including influential Congressmen, think Lodge doesn't go far enough. They urge a direct popular election, claiming that under both the present system and the Lodge Plan, the states' electoral votes are not proportional to population. (Nevada, for instance, has one-sixteenth the electoral vote of New York, but only one one-hundred-and-thirtieth of the population of New York. This is because...
...framers set up an indirect method of election, because, among other reasons, they felt the people were "too little informed of the personal characters" of the nominees. This has all changed. In the last election every whistle stop and hill country hamlet saw or heard all about the major candidates...