Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...referendum ballot in seven hundred colleges and universities in all parts of the country would represent as far as is possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...
College professors of France have agreed to hold a referendum to decide whether or not they shall transform their association into a national union to be affiliated with the Labor Federation. The school teachers already have decided to join the Labor Federation, although their right so to organize has not been recognized by the government...
...recent meeting of the Princeton Undergraduate Council, resolutions for the division of college offices into two groups, and a limitation on the number of offices in each class which can be held by a single, student, were unanimously adopted and are to be submitted to a referendum vote of the university. Yale adopted a similar system several weeks...
...Sophomore Class, and in the Smith Halls Common Room for the Freshman Class. Watchers at the polls have been appointed to conduct the balloting. At Phillips Brooks House the watchers at the polls appointed for the Senior Class election will also supervise the 1918 voting in this referendum. Members of 1920 and 1921 will serve at the other polls...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...