Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of the Corporation, confirmed this week by the Board of Overseers, containing the change in admission requirements which will take effect at the beginning of the next academic year, reads: "Only graduates of approved colleges presenting scholastic records which meet the standard set by the Committee on Admissions will be received as candidates for the degree of Bachelor, of laws...
...discussion of the proposed Ivy League which includes the seven colleges invited to attend the meeting, as the plan for the football league was released after preliminary plans had been drawn for the meeting. However, the subject will be taken up if the representatives of the seven colleges vote to discuss...
...repeated specific charges of inefficiency against Dr. Frank. But nothing in his statement or in his speech before the mob of students cleared him of the implication of countenancing interference for purely personal reasons. Most of the members of the board of regents appointed by Governor La Follette voted against Dr. Frank. This was, of course, their right. But the fact that it has long been asserted that they were chosen because of their loyalty to the Governor rather than because of their fitness as regents makes the coincidence of their vote significant in the light of the Governor...
...that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal. His insurgency and his opponent's anger nearly always make him a martyr. It began when he was deprived of all patronage for his revolt against Cannon...
...held an election to decide whether to accept a PWA offer of $105,000, 45% of the cost of bringing in electricity from the Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...