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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent election can be placed upon the shoulders of the committee in charge. Polls were held at two halls in the Yard and one in the Engineering School from ten until one o'clock. Was not this sufficient time for those interested members of a class to vote. It was suggested that Widener and Mallinckrodt be opened up for a similar period and even in the afternoon. The question is would this be worthwhile in order to secure perhaps twenty-five or thirty votes more? Would you have the Student Council undergo the expense of additional pictures, and would...
Next day the Reichstag threw out the Liberty-Law with a savage vote of 318 to 82. But it will not be dead until Dec. 22. On that date a second referendum must be held, according to the constitution. If 50% of the electorate should vote with Hugenbergists?which seems utterly improbable?then the Liberty-Law would come automatically into effect despite its rejection by the Reichstag. Worse could not befall the Fatherland. The Allies will ruthlessly force her to keep paying reparations if she tries to refuse, but so long as she continues to pay willingly they will...
Some explanation other than the too easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives...
...lengthening of voting hours and the increase of the number of places for balloting are, however, immediately practicable. In addition to Sever, Pierce, and Harvard Halls, Mallinckrodt and Widener suggest themselves as likely to be visited by eligible voters. The extension of time for balloting is quite as important. The afternoon hours are best adapted to Mallinckrodt and Widener, the morning to the others. Voting on two successive flays is a workable solution of this problem. The necessity for more supervisors can easily be met by increasing the membership of the Junior Polls Committees; and the result can hardly, fall...
...Senate and the House of Representatives, plans to conduct in the State House commemorative observances of the first sitting of the General Court. This celebration will be of particular interest to members of the University, who will remember that Harvard College was founded in 1636 by a vote of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who voted 400 pounds to the establishment of a college. Consequently any celebration of the inauguration of parliamentary administration, centered as it was in the General Court, is definitely related to the early history of the College...