Word: voting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...election of the three representatives from the College at large, a three-quarters vote of the entire Council shall be necessary...
...officers of the Council shall be a president, a vice-president, and a secretary. (1) The president shall preside at all meetings and shall have the power to cast a vote only in case of a tie, and at the election of members to the Council. (2) The vice-president shall, in the absence of the president, assume all his powers. (3) The secretary shall perform the duties regularly pertaining to that office...
...Courts and State registration boards have handed down strict regulations in regard to student voting. These regulations, obviously, affect only those men who have not their permanent abode in Cambridge, but owing to their residence here for nine months of the year, are practically citizens of this community. For the benefit of those men who are desirous of voting at the coming presidential election, it would be well to explain the conditions under which a student can vote in Cambridge...
...Massachusetts, and the boards of registration in accepting students are governed only by an opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts addressed to the House of Representatives in 1843. This opinion states that a student must establish a legal domicile in the town where he wishes to vote, and as his domicile can be presumed to be that of his parent or guardian, the burden of proof rests upon him to establish a change of domicile, if his parent or guardian reside in some other locality than that in which he wishes to vote. This change of domicile...
...register in Cambridge any time before 10 o'clock tomorrow night. For those men living in other parts of the state, or who live near enough to allow them to go to their homes to vote, warning is given that the time for registration is practically over and any men who wish to perform their duty as citizens of the state on the fourth of November must first see to it that they are properly registered...