Word: votes
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...vote of the Corporation the tuition in the Divinity School will be $150.00 beginning with the year '97-'98, except for members already in the School...
Debate of April 2, 1896.Question: "Resolved, That U. S. Senators Should be Elected by Direct Vote of the people...
...vote of congratulation was extended to the four Union men who are on the five from whom Harvard's representatives for the Yale debate are to be chosen...
...less likely to be attempted.- (X) Risk of discovery greater.- (A) More persons to be approached.- (B) Longer interval before election during which attention is paid to circumstances of nomination.- (2) Competitive bribery less likely to succeed.- (X) Bribes offered much smaller.- (A) Convention nomination worth less.- (B) Single vote in convention of less importance than single vote in caucus.- (C) Risk of discovery less.- (b) Boodle candidates less likely to succeed if nominated.- (1) Such candidates admittedly very weak at polls...
...improve the personnel of our state legislatures.- (a) Present system directly induces nominations of unfit men for legislature. (1) Bosses nominate such men to help themselves to Senate: Pub. Op. XIV, 393 (Jan. 28, 1893).- (b) Present system prevents defeat of unfit candidates when nomiated.- (1) People dare not vote against them for fear of losing senatorship for their party: Atlantic, LVIII, p, 229 (Aug. 1891); Mitchell in Cong. Rec. April...