Word: votes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...model, he showed the results that have been obtained by making the people initial in and responsible for the welfare of the state. First the people secured the power of popular initiative in legislation, and then proceeded to use that power. The legislature, though pledged, would not vote for direct primaries, and so the people drafted their own bill and forced it through. As a result, state officers are nominated by the people and adopt their own platforms, from which the people choose. Then the provision was added to this bill that the state legislators must pledge themselves absolutely...
...indifference to scholarship are not likely to win election, membership is within the reach of any man of good ability who is willing to do, even at some sacrifice, the best work of which he is capable. It is interesting to note that at Yale, at a recent straw vote in which the classes of '07, '11, and '14 took part, membership in Phi Beta Kappa was voted by each class to be the highest undergraduate honor, exceeding even editorship of the college papers, or the winning of the football...
...intercollegiate track games will be held at Soldiers Field on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27. This decision was reached at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held Saturday at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York. The vote resulted 11 to 6 in favor of Soldiers Field. Syracuse University, which was indorsed by the last annual meeting of the association and considered by a meeting of the executive board held Friday night, as a place for the meet, was rejected because of certain objectionable peculiarities of its track...
...proposed change in the rules of the association barring freshmen from spring meets was defeated by a vote of 11 to 7. A rule was adopted forbidding any student from competing at more than four annual games. The following amendment submitted by Columbia was adopted: "No one shall represent any college or university as a competitor in the annual field meeting or cross-country run who has won a first, second, third, or fourth place in the annual field meeting or cross-country run while representing any other college or university, which is, or within four years prior thereto...
...votes for President Lowell came from A. H. Silvester of Worcester and R. A. Wood '03 of Cambridge, two anti-Lodge men. The entire vote was cast as follows: for Henry Cabot Lodge '71, 146; for Sherman L. Whipple, 121; for Butler Ames, 7; for President Lowell, 2; for Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, 1; for John R. Thayer, 1; for Sylvester J. McBridge...