Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently fashionable to attack the lecture system, and it is well to recount its usefulness other than as a convenience in dealing with large number of students. Certain courses are designed for the acquisition of basic material which is not conveniently found by reading. Others deal with technical material which is difficult to grasp in written form. And, perhaps most important, the lecture allows the great teacher, the seminal mind, to communicate with more people than he could meet individually or in small groups. The success of this theory, however, depends almost entirely on the lecturer's ability to transmit...
...G.O.P. a 22-to-20 control of the state senate, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Robert E. Quinn refused to administer oaths to the two close Republican victors. This left the senate in a 20-to-20 tie, which Quinn broke with his own vote, to order a closed, Democratic-controlled recount of the contested districts. When the ballots were recounted, the general assembly declared that both Democratic contenders had won. Then with both houses under Democratic control, the assembly declared all five Supreme Court seats-all then held by Republicans-vacant, replaced the justices with three Democrats, two other Republicans...
...recount of sophomore ballots cast in Thursday's Student Council elections has confirmed the accuracy of the original count, John B. Read '57, chairman of the Council Elections Committee, announced yesterday...
Three defeated sophomore candidates had requested the recount Friday because of the narrow margins. Read said the candidates were present at the re-tally, and were satisfied that the results were accurate. Although the Council did not release the election figures, only two or three votes reportedly separated the winning and losing candidates...
Leyland said last night that Council President Edward M. Abramson '57 had approved his request for a recount. He added that other candidates besides Wein-stock might ask a re-tally. Although the Council does not release election figures, the votes for some places were reported-ly as close as two or three ballots...