Word: voting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the constitutions of the various classes of Harvard College were constructed their makers had in mind, above all else, the fact that in elections and in other class activities each undergraduate should be able to not only have a vote, but also a voice. Their aim was to avoid the possibility of the suppression by any group of any candidates for office who were desired by a considerable portion of a class and to insure the election of men representative of the entire class. In order to accomplish this, especially in the Senior class, the method of nomination...
...list of voters will be posted in University Hall, in the CRIMSON Building, and in the various entries of the Yard tomorrow. Only men whose names appear on such lists will be eligible to vote. Any man whose name is not on the list and who considers that he should have the right to vote, may petition the Nominating Committee to enter his name thereon. Such petition must be in the hands of the Committee by Saturday evening, January 11, and the revised list will be posted in the CRIMSON Building the following Monday. In this regard the Student Council...
...still remain in service will be allowed to vote, but no special effort will be made to secure their vote...
...serving as Civil Service Commissioner and Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York, he was in 1900 elected Vice-President. When McKinley died he became President, and on November 4, 1904, he was returned to that office by the largest vote any candidate for President had received. At this expiration of his term of office, March 4, 1909, he ended his career as public office-holder and went to Africa on a hunting expedition...
Inasmuch as the practice of supervised study now exists for the benefit of the student and of him alone, we urge that the matter of its modification or abandonment be put to a vote of the members of the S. A. T. C. and continue or cease by their decision. The homely maxim, however old and familiar, has yet much meaning for those who are willing to heed it: "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink...