Word: welds
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Only 2420 ballots were cast out of approximately 5400 possible undergraduate votes, but Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, chairman of the Constitution Reform Committee, was encouraged by the high proportion of affirmative replies: there were 2104 ayes to 294 nays, with 22 spoiled ballots...
...next move is up to the Council," shrugged Weld. "It is in favor of a majority of the provisions of the new document, and under the existing constitution, which is not inactive until voted inactive, the Council may by a two-thirds vote ratify the new constitution even though it has not been approved by the student body. The only requirement is that the new constitution be posted for a period of thirty days, and this one conforms to that ruling...
Five thousand ballots proved an inadequate supply to meet the unforeseeably heavy but still uneven desire of the College to express itself yesterday on the work of the Constitutional Committee's program of reform. Chairman Edric A. Weld '46 promised as the polls closed that 2500 more were in preparation, and would be rushed to replenish dwindling stocks in hard pressed points today...
...Weld frankly confessed unpreparedness for such overwhelming response last night, recalling that the average college-wide election normally draws less than 2000 correctly marked votes, and that 2300 constituted an all time record...
Unofficial surveys of early returns last night indicated a 90 percent trend in favor of the committee's recommendations. Weld informed his voting public last night that "we will need 2700 affirmative votes. Only a real majority will put us over...