Word: voting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First, Second and third Marshal. Of the three elected that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First marshal shall be declared First marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total for First Marshal and Second Marshal shall be greater, shall be Second marshal; and the other candidate elected shall be Third Marshal...
According to the vote of the class on December 12, the First Marshal will preside at all future meetings of the class...
...class. The man who electioneers forcibly brings to light the weakness of his candidate; for if the man is worthy of election there would be no point gained in foisting him upon the class. The practices of passing around printed sheets in favor of candidates and of covertly soliciting votes through the mail are methods which the class should effectively condemn. Every man in the class, therefore, should go to the polls to vote for the man whom he honestly believes best fitted for the office for which he is nominated, and thus defeat the underhanded electioneering methods which have...
...matter now stands, it is unfair to the nominees because many men signed the petitions merely from a mistaken idea of obligation to the man, or to be rid of the canvasser, although they do not intend to vote for the men thus nominated. It is unfair to the class because it may result in the election of men to whom the majority are opposed, to avoid which they left the work to the Committee on Class Day Elections...
...absent from Cambridge on election days by permission of the College office, may petition the Committee on Class Day Elections to be allowed to vote by mail. Such petitions must be placed in a box provided for the purpose at the CRIMSON office, before 7 P. M., on Thursday, December 15. The Committee shall consider each petition on its merits...