Word: voter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advance, and their improvements should be taken as bases for future innovations by members of the Student Council. New methods have been evolved for the nomination of candidates and a pernicious evil, the duplication of votes has been fore-stalled by the simple remedy of checking off each voter at the polls. Such clarification of an important function of the two classes deserves high praise. Better still it deserves the flattery of imitation...
Clearer than any handwriting on the wall is the ballot in the Senior class election. At the bottom of that document the glove is flung down to the unwary voter: "DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION?" Following this challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...
...lips in envy. Even in a German plebiscite the man on the street is given the opportunity of expressing his disapproval of the regime. The votes may not be counted, but his love of political power is catered to none the less. No such indulgence for the Harvard voter, of whom docility is expected by the marching men of the Student Council...
Among 56 whol, aware of the high court's ruling, refrained from marking their ballots at all a common sentiment was expressed by one voter who simply wrote "oops" under the question and marked it with a cross...
...total of 431 who registered in favor of a plan for pensions were 74 Freshmen, 124 Sophomores, 115 Juniors, 99 Seniors, and 14 graduate students. One voter in the space marked "class" listed himself as "worker...