Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of a University track captain to take the place of William Moore Occ, has been postponed. The management feared that, on account of the few "H" men in the University at present, a representative meeting could not be called, and consequently decided to elect the captain by mail. All "H" men who were in the University at the close of last year will vote by mail for one of the Senior letter men in College this year. In case the leading man does not receive a majority vote, a second ballot will be taken on the two leading...
...ballots cast in the elections of last Tuesday are a sad commentary on the spirit of the three upper classes in the College. From a registration of 276 in the Senior Class, only 56 votes were cast, showing that four-fifths of the members of that class either take no interest whatever in their representation on the Student Council or are too lazy to go to the polls. In 1921, with a total registration of 553, only 126 ballots were cast, and in 1922, with a class enrolment of 672, only 207 ballots. Added to these numbers the 272 unclassified...
...system of having candidates named and seconded in primaries, thinned out by direct voting on the convention ballot, and four or five successful names placed on the final, ballot, would prevent such a shameful showing as on Tuesday, let us adopt that system. But whatever the means, let us take steps to put an end to the alarming indifference exhibited in the recent elections...
Following the decision of the Rhodes trustees to alter their methods of selecting American men to go to Oxford, students will in the future be chosen by ex-Rhodes scholars who live in the United States. A committee of these ex-scholars in each state will take the place of the presidents of the universities who have formerly chosen the scholars, but the committees in each case will be headed by some prominent college graduate...
Yesterday the upper six of the eleven new squash courts at the Randolph Gymnasium were opened for use. These courts will be sufficient to take care of all comers for the present. The rest of the courts will not open until next week...