Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joint committee of the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA) and the Board of Overseers yesterday determined the ballot positions for candidates for Overseer and AHA director...
...course, magnanimous of the Class Committee to hold a preferential ballot; until recent years, the Committee chose the Class Day speaker on its own. Unfortunately, though, as one Committee member said last week, "I'm not sure that people took the poll seriously...
That may be something of an understatement. Allen won the preferential poll by such a wide margin (688 to 381 for Cronkite) that the Class Committee felt compelled to brush aside its reservations and abide by the ballot. Generally, one Committee member confided, "most of the idiots got the votes." So much for the democratic process...
...just doesn't mesh. What is perhaps more astonishing than the results of the Class Day poll, however, is that the 49 members of the Class Committee, and the Class Day subcommittee, could come up with a ballot that included 16 entertainers--from Peter Bogdonovich and Katherine Hepburn to George Harrison and Garo Yepremian--in a field of 34 persons...
Still, there were a few serious candidates on the seniors' list (Leonard Bernstein, Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm, Erik Erikson, Francis Fitzgerald, Margaret Mead). But the Class of 1973, like gleeful high school seniors, went for the funny men and the celebrities; and the makeup of the ballot invited just such a result...