Word: voting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Nickalls has been offered and has unofficalily accepted the position of crew coach at Yale to succeed Professor M. A. Abbott according to the vote of the Board of Athletic Control at its last meeting. In accepting this offer, Nickalls resumes the position of head coach which he held with marked success from...
Heretofore the Trophy has been awarded to the school having the greatest number of candidates on the honor list, but, in accordance with the vote of the chapter taken last year, the award has now been made to the school whose candidates attained the highest average grade, this grade being calculated on the total records of all final candidates from the school competing as a group with all final candidates from other schools...
...election of Marshals was conducted under the following rule: "Every voter shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes for First Marshal shall be elected First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote is higher shall be Second Marshal, and the other one Third Marshal...
...eyes turn toward Washington, what do we see? Our august Senators and Representatives are preparing to take a two weeks vacation. While individually they urge increased work on the part of everyone else, collectively they vote themselves a fortnight's holiday. The words of Governor Coolidge in speaking of the Massachusetts Legislature apply equally well to Congress; service as a representative, voluntarily undertaken, cannot be looked upon as a job; it is a trust, and one not lightly to be cast aside...
...referendum ballot in seven hundred colleges and universities in all parts of the country would represent as far as is possible a cross-section of the sentiment of the nation. Such a vote would have far more significance than the straw ballots recently held at Harvard and Yale and elsewhere; a nation-wide vote would eliminate the possibility of the charge of sectionalism and would not represent only one social class...