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...Class Day. The transfer of the third game, which has been so often necessary to decide a tie that it may almost be called a fixture, to Boston, and arranging it for the day preceding Commencement, would add interest to that empty interval between Class Day and Commencement. The best feature of the changed dates is that the men on the baseball teams can now be dismissed nearly a week earlier than hitherto...
Congratulations and best wishes to Captain Withington! There is every indication that the football team which he leads will be distinctly above the average. The foundation has been laid in the past two seasons for a permanent coaching system on the right lines, and the indications are that only a few positions will have to be filled...
...voting for the Class and Class Day officers. The first is that those men should be rewarded with offices who have in the past three and a half years done most for the class and for the College; the second is that the offices should go to the men best capable of doing the work required...
...part of the officers elected today will have life tenure, others only through this year; but the duties of all the places are important and need the services of the best men. There is no other criterion of fitness than the work that the candidates have done here as undergraduates. Their qualities have been tried as thoroughly as such tasks can test the calibre of a man. The men are known personally or by reputation to most members of the class; there ought to be no cases in which lack of knowledge about the nominees is an excuse...
...class election should be determined on merit alone. It is an ideal not often attained, but it is none the less an ideal to be sought after: to cast aside personal likes and dislikes, to vote for the men who most deserve office and who are best fitted for carrying out the obligations of office, and to abide by the results without complaint...