Word: appointing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supervise the counting of ballots. After instructing the chairman of the Counting Committee how the votes should be counted, the Nominating Committee left the counting of the votes wholly to the Juniors as has been the case in past years. It is true that the committee did not appoint the poll watchers or order the ballots. This was due to a misunderstanding and not to neglect. The misunderstanding, however, was straightened out in plenty of time and the committee would have done all these things had the class officers not previously attended to them...
...neglected to appoint poll watchers...
...neglected to appoint men enough to count the ballots...
...seems to me that the work of the committee could be done more easily, more efficiently, and with more responsibility on the other members if the following method of election was employed: Let the marshals and other class officers confer with the nominating committee of the Student Council, and appoint four men who are reasonably business-like and efficient, and who also are not busy with any extensive outside activities during the spring. These men would be the Chairman, the Treasurer, the Spread Manager, and the Yard Man. Of course there are many other ways of appointing or electing these...
...author of the communication makes a suggestion that is practical and yet does not remove entirely the glamor of having the "big men" on the Class Day Committee. He would have the marshals and other class officers, with the nominating committee of the Student Council, appoint four men who are capable of relieving the Class Day Chairman of most of the responsibility and hard work. If any objection be raised that, by this system, four deserving men are deprived of the honor of holding office, it would be simple enough to place them on a larger Class Committee...