Word: quorums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House had a surface air of complacency; in fact, it could hardly muster a quorum. The reason was that most of its work-cutting Treasury funds by some $900 million, considering plans to improve the Panama Canal or admit Hawaii as a state-was being done in committee...
Meanwhile in the nomination meetings, Dunster House proved the most interested in the revised election procedure, turning out 143 members strong, well over the quorum mark...
Winthrop House assembled a 110-man quorum last night in the first of a College wide series of Student Council nomination meetings, and successfully put the new constitution's elective system to its first test...
Ratification of the new Student Council Constitution by a quorum of its members was announced last night by President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48, as the Council Elections Committee slated House nomination meetings for the first part of next week...
Further reforms call for open meetings in the Houses and in the Union, primarily to nominate a slate for Council elections, but serving a double purpose in giving publicity to Council reports and decisions. The proposed constitution also provides for nominating committees in lieu of a 25 percent quorum in the Houses or a ten percent quorum in the Union...