Word: marshalships
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defeated candidate for a marshalship may be nominated in the meeting, by any one, for a place on one of the committees...
...altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution of the difficulty will be suggested...
...name on the official ballot for more than one office, had been without the alternative (placed by mistake under Clause VII), then the plan would be open to the objection pointed out in the editorial, namely, that if a prominent Senior should fail to be elected, say to a marshalship, the class would have no opportunity to give him a place lower down on the list. But if the eighteen places were divided into the two groups into which they logically fall; if, as was proposed in the alternative to Clause III, the secretary, marshals, literary officers, and chorister, were...
...five so called literary offices, including choristers, to be voted for on the first day. Then nominations for the nine committee places may be made on the day following the announcement of the results of the first election, so that a prominent candidate who had failed to get a marshalship might still be put up for a committee place to take his chances in a second election. The aims of this plan are simply to put the election on a more democratic and up to date footing, to obliterate society lines, and thereby to minimize the evils which are always...
...trouble is that which forbids the nomination of the same candidate for more than one office. It is of course understood that no individual shall hold more than one office. On the other hand, it would be a misfortune to the class, in case of a contest over a marshalship, for instance, to deprive the defeated candidate of all chance to be placed lower down on the list. This drawback, which seems an essential part of any system of secret ballot, should if possible be eliminated, and we urge most earnestly that every effort be made to remove such difficulties...