Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON, must be impressed with the fact that Harvard has at last evolved an effective system of student government. The questions proposed and in a great part solved during the last five months show a height of interest and efficiency on the part of subordinate committees seldom seen among undergraduate activities. A great deal of credit is due the Executive Committee which has directed the work and appointed the men who have taken their tasks seriously and obtained lasting results...
...nominating committee, usually nominated themselves for the class officers, and usually were elected. This often gave rise to a more or less exaggerated feeling on the part of certain members of the class that "machine politics" had been introduced into college elections. This feeling sometimes resulted in bitterness among various "groups" in the class. The fact that additional nominations might have been made by petition seems to have been of little help in solving these difficulties...
...candidate most favored by the class, will be elected. No preference will be given to the "regular" as opposed to the "petition" candidate, inasmuch as every candidate will be nominated by petition. After an election is over no man will have the right to feel that he was "unrepresented" among the nominees or that a certain body of men "controlled" the election. Under this system it is believed a fairer representation and a more genuine class unity will result...
...action of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs in urging each local Harvard Club in New England to appoint a committee to spread information about Harvard among the schools in its neighborhood is, we believe, a wise one from every point of view. For the College it is essential, for even in New England Harvard does not occupy the obvious pre-eminence among the college-going classes that it once did, largely because the college-going class has so enlarged itself in the last twenty-five years. Nowadays great numbers of boys work their way through college, and many...
...with Ireland, or Holland, or Sweden." Professor Muensterberg sees, as the outcome of the situation, a unique nation issuing from the "melting-pot" in which the finest qualities of all Europe will be blended, and in which will live a new patriotism "which will not know host or guests among the citizens of this country...