Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 1312 ballots and countless pocketed raw eggs, the Cambridge City Council has reached the end of the road. It was a long road and often a comic one, but last Friday the councilmen met for the thirty-sixth time and decided not to vote again. They didn't have to, for they had finally elected a mayor...
...Council headquarters last night, treasurer Ray A. Goldberg '48 warned that each voter must cast a ballot for his own class. No Senior graduating this June may vote. All others who are in the Class of 1948 or earlier must ballot with the Class...
...effect, by which a man who wrote a thesis needed fewer than the customary 16 courses to graduate. But the workings of the system proved so complex that at the Student Council's suggestion, the current thesis for honors was established in its stead. By 1941, however, the Faculty voted to abolish this course, but a series of wartime rulings has succeeded in keeping the system alive. Now, with the "duration" rules swept from the books, the thesis for honors course will perish unless a new vote at a mid-May Faculty meeting saves it from oblivion...
Ever since the Student Council became a popularly-elected body two years ago, the College's political idealists have been hovering anxiously around the ballot boxes, hoping to see democracy vindicated. The student vote would bring in topnotch men, the idealists ventured, and with a real mandate, these democratic Councils would do a better job than had their predecessors under the appointive system. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Not only has student interest in Council activities failed to show any appreciable upswing, but the voters themselves have exhibited a mighty disregard for the blessings of the secret ballot...
...Harvard. Council labors are, for the most part, hardly of the type that catch the imagination; Councilmen and candidates for office have been understandably squeamish about making a lot of noise about issues or their own qualifications for office. It has been a pretty sober affair, as undergraduates who voted last Thursday--or who didn't take the trouble to vote--can testify...