Word: voting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mind the following eligibility rules: All men who are candidates for the degrees of A.B. or S.B. in 1910, all men who have received or will receive their degrees as of the class of 1910, and all men who are fourth-year special students shall be eligible to vote; but no man who has voted in any previous Class Day election shall be eligible to vote. In addition, men now in the University not included under any of these qualifications, who entered with the class of 1910, and who are not officially registered with the class...
Yesterday's brief report of the meeting of the Board of Overseers recorded a vote in which that body concurred with the Corporation in approval of the establishment of Freshman dormitories. The subject is of less immediate interest than the approaching changes in the elective system, but Freshman dormitories, when they become realities, will have a greater effect on undergraduate life than any limitation that is likely to be placed on the choice of studies...
...vote of the Faculty on changes in the elective system, approved yesterday by the Board of Overseers, is in accord with the principles which President Lowell laid down in his inaugural address. It has been a common rumor for some weeks that the matter was under discussion in the Faculty, and the announcement this morning indicates that the first step has been already taken...
...would be idle to say that the change involves no curtailment of the freedom of individual choice; the very words of the Faculty's vote belie such an assertion. But it is the freedom which has resulted in abuse of privileges that is to be abridged; and in the diminution of injurious liberty there is nothing but gain...
...Every elector shall vote for two candidates for the Class Committee, three for the Photograph Committee, and seven for the Class Day Committee. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Class Committee, and the three candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Photograph Committee, and the seven candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the Class Day Committee shall be declared elected. Each Committee shall elect its own chairman...