Word: voting
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...ball of reform has started to roll among those administrative officials who compile and publish the College's catalogue of courses. It has not yet rolled far. The vote of the Faculty in January to re-number all courses according to a new, simplified system, cogent as it is, in itself is little more than a token revision. Unless further revisions are made, the usefulness of the catalogue to students will remain substantially in its present, not fully satisfactory state. Within the next few weeks the Committee on Educational Policy will receive drafts from the various departments for next year...
...your item under the head of Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl [TIME, Jan. 5] . . . I have been delegated . . . to express admiration for the writer who understands the security of pants (Hosenselbständigkeit) and who deals with the subject with such deftness; but, on a vote taken, there was a protest against the writer's translation of the crisp word. We believe that it is better rendered as Confidence-in-your-pants-remaining-in-position -without -further-worry. A minority would substitute "panties" for "pants...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
...senior year and the issue came to a showdown in the election of my successor as president. After much study of the constitution, a meeting was called of all the editors who were then in college. There was a surprisingly large number of them and, as you know, the vote went against us by a substantial margin...
...been written on all subjects, yet from my first recollection of the paper, before we entered World War I, through efforts to maintain international peace and to defend our outspoken professors from outside interference, down more recently to specific advice on how a liberal should cast his national vote, the "policy" has been to admit as much freshness of thought as the Board could develop...