Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting in their respective houses, to pledge their senior members to support a certain slate. All participants in the caucus are considered in honor bound to vote for a man for that particular office for which he is slated, and for no other. This slate is generally labelled "Representative Ticket"; it does represent an immense amount of intersociety diplomacy, but at least two thirds of the class have had no voice in arranging it. The pledge supporters of the slate generally constitute a majority of those present at the average class election and consequently succeed in putting through the slate...
...plan, consisting of the secret ballot system of election, the committee considers this portion also to offer a desirable improvement. Certain practical difficulties have, however, suggested themselves at this point. The chief of these is, that no man who is defeated as a candidate at the top of the ticket can be nominated for a place lower down, since no man can be nominated for more than one place...
...communications show this morning, the chief difficulty is to provide for men who may be defeated as candidates at the top of the ticket. The plan proposed of holding the committee elections over a day is not altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution...
...Every member of the association who intends to eat Thanksgiving dinner at Memorial Hall must get a ticket for the same at the auditor's office. The price of tickets for guests will be fifty cents...
...Course ticket, $1.75. Single admission to first balcony, 75 cents. General admission to second balcony, 50 cents. For sale at Sever...