Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important aspect of the class election question seems thus far to have gone unnoticed. It has been proposed to forbid re-elections until the Senior year, in order that the final officers may be chosen on the basis of previously proved executive ability. To this it has been objected that the rule will often result in forcing the retirement, for a year or two, of the most capable officers. This point is good, but it goes only half way. Executive ability has in both cases been treated as a fixed quality in the candidates under consideration. In reality the power...
...this morning's CRIMSON President Derby of the Senior class summons the Freshmen to assemble next Monday evening for their first class election. The custom at Harvard in recent years has been for the men chosen at the first election to serve through their entire College course. This custom gives very uneven results. Most of the officers will be fairly well fitted for their positions, and satisfactory to everybody, but the class may find some of the men chosen in the Freshman year neither creditable nor satisfactory...
...meetings, but to represent the class at public meetings, and to do effectively such work on committees and semi-official boards as his office will inevitably bring him. The other offices call likewise for competent men, men who have power of initiative and business capacity. Sometimes such men are chosen in the first place, but there is no way of being at all sure about...
...team will not be chosen until just previous to the shoot this afternoon. Following is the 1905 team: G. Brooks (captain), A. Hemenway, M. C. Ward, F. W. Cloud...
There will be fencing every Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 6 in the fencing room of the Gymnasium for the candidates not chosen for the University squad. Any men desiring private instruction will be given appointments in a special class under Mr. Pianelli. The Fencers' Club will hold two tournaments, one of them for novices, during the next two months...