Word: voting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would injure the whites, for in several states an ignorant negro vote would hold the balance of power. Am. Commonwealth...
...Only members of the class, past and present, who are candidates for the degree of A.B., S.B., or C.E., in 1894, and who are likely to be recommended by the faculty, shall be allowed to vote and shall be eligible to office...
Lists of sections will be posted on the blackboard and members will expediate matters by seating themselves at the places assigned them, for no one will be allowed to vote in any other section...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots will be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in 9 sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...often been the case that men who deserve places on the ticket have been defeated simply because their classmates had insufficient moral courage to vote as they ought. There is a class of unprincipled men in every large gathering who are only too willing to follow any leader who tickles their fancy with a tale of wonderful exploits or with a hope of preferment of one kind or another. These men, weak as they are individually, form a formidable body when many of them get together, so formidable a body in fact, that often the tide of fortune turns entirely...