Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already won two debates, one against Amherst by a 3 to 1 vote and the second over Dartmouth by a unanimous decision. The subjects for the second and third rounds of the intercollegiate world war have not, as yet, been agreed upon they will be made public about one month before the debate is held...
Whatever else they are the bosses of the Vare machine in Philadelphia are certainly frank about their methods. One of these gentlemen, referring to the remarkable coincidence that in a score of voting districts not a vote was counted for Wilson, Vare's opponent, has issued the following statement for publication: "I told the boys that they must not turn in any zeros this trip. They didn't follow orders and now there's explaining to be done...
...apparently a custom in Philadelphia not only to discover that ballots cast for an opponent of the machine are invalid or have been discreetly mislaid in the counting, but to cast votes freely for those who have for some reason or other been unable to come to the polls at all. A Dartmouth undergraduate coming down to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving lamented that he had not been able to get down before to vote for Wilson, only to discover that he had voted for Vare after all. Cases of this sort are multiplying as the investigation of the Committee of Seventy...
...total number of ballots cast, 519 was much larger than last year. The vote represents a large majority of the 700 students in the class of 1927. Only five ballots were thrown out, as compared with 51 in last year's elections...
...treasurer, Field, former President of the CRIMSON, Chairman of the Budget Committee, Treasurer of the Student Council, and Vice-President of the Phillips Brooks House Committee, led his only competitor by a 150 vote margin...