Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some time ago the CRIMSON published an editorial finding fault with the record shown in their studies by members of the Freshman football team. Since then certain objections have been made to this editorial on the ground that it put the Freshman class in a false light. Wishing to treat these men with all fairness, we shall make it plain how far we were wrong, and how far we were right...
Professor Copeland will give the last of a series of five readings in the Dining Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 9 o'clock. He will read certain scenes from Macbeth, and also "A Sleeping Car", a farce, by William Dean Howells. The doors of the Dining Room will be opened at 8.45 o'clock and no one will be admitted after 9 o'clock. This reading will be open only to members of the Union...
...Expenditures for Athletics" the Graduate Treasurer is again on the defensive, as the reviewer thinks he and his committee will have to be for some years, on the matter of athletic expenditures. While extravagance is undoubtedly being watched with greater care than ever before, the expense accounts of certain sports are without question too great, considering the number of men engaged. Certainly all of us will hope that constant improvement in the system by which the sports are carried on will prevent any return to the abominable practice of subscription hunting--some need of which Mr. Garcelon fears...
...system of nomination by a committee. Under this old system, the leading men in the class were usually elected to the 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...
...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...