Word: valid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nominating Committee wishes to call the attention of the class to the rule specifying that the requisite number of candidates for each office must be voted for in order to make the ballot valid. This ruling means that one choice must be marked for Secretary, two for the Class Committee, five for the Album Committee, and seven for the Class Day Committee...
...early as possible during that period. But the fact remains that this year, as more than once in the past, it has appeared at an unreasonably late date. Probably, as is the case with so many collegiate publications which become tardy in their date of publication, there are perfectly valid reasons for the delay; unfortunately that does not help the subscriber--nor, it may be added, the publisher...
Presumably, however, the plan at Columbia has been drawn up to provide such necessary machinery. But there still remains a valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn...
Only 11 votes more than the 415 necessary to make the election valid were received by the committee up till the closing hour at noon yesterday. The grand total of ballots received yesterday came to 445, but 19 votes were cast out leaving...
Approximately 50 votes are still needed before there will be the required 60 per cent of the total Junior ballots necessary to make the pending election valid. At midnight last night, only 371 votes out of a possible 680 had been received...