Word: mock
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mock presidential ballot at Willaims resulted as follows: Whole number of votes, 248; Harrison, 174; Cleveland, 47; Fisk, 27; majority for Harrison...
...polls in the college mock election closed Saturday evening, but the ballots have not yet been counted. The result of the election will not be announced until Thursday evening at the meeting of the Harvard Union, under whose direction the election has been conducted...
...would again urge everyone who has not cast his vote in the mock election to do so at once. The ballots and boxes may be found at Memorial and at Leavitt and Peirce's during today. They will be removed tonight, so everyone ought to vote will out delay. It will take only a few minutes for each man to write out his ballot and drop it in the box, and every man ought to feel it his duty to do so. Unless all the men in college cast their votes, the value of the election will be impaired...
...presidency. The committee having the canvass in charge have taken every precaution to guard against ballot stuffing, and there will be no voting by proxy. The boxes will be open for voters today and tomorrow. Every member of the university is eligible to vote. The result of the mock election will be awaited with a good deal of interest. No one should fail to vote, be he a Republican, Democrat or Prohibitionist, and the earlier the better...
...mock convention will be held tonight to nominate candidates for the presidency of the United States. There will be a roll call of States, and the principal candidates will be nominated when their States are called. The nominating speeches for the chief candidates will be made by speakers who have been chosen for the occasion, and will not exceed ten minutes each. Then speeches of five minutes can be made seconding previous nominations or nominating candidates not hitherto brought forward, and all members of the University are invited to speak...