Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of nomination in all upper class elections provided for a primary announcement of only these candidates who had been selected by the regular committee. Nominations by petition were published later as being by petition. Charges were made that there was discrimination against the petitionaries...
Last year a self-constituted Committee for Electoral Reform, backed by 127 signatures from the class of 1938, presented a number of demands to the Student Council. The Committee's platform stated that the later announcement of nominees by petition made them appear to be "self-seekers...
Harvard students are nearly two inches taller than the average undergraduate at midwestern universities, William H. Sheldon, research associate in Physical Anthropology, said today, after the conclusion of an extensive photographic measurement of the entire Freshman class...
...recommendations with regard to Junior Album and Senior Class elections, little need be said. The provision for eliminating such stigma as has formerly been attached to men chosen by petition, by placing their names in the same category with Student Council nominees, is an excellent idea, although it must inevitably whitewash the publicity-minded undergraduate politicos along with the more worthy men who have a higher conception of office-holding. Also, many minds should be set at ease by the suggestion that future nominations for the Student Council election be made by an enlarged committee with a majority...
With regard to Freshman elections, however, the Council merely recommends that signatures be required on ballots, ignoring the knotty problems raised every year by the impossibility of a really democratic election in a class which is new to the college and unacquainted with itself. It has been repeatedly pointed out in these columns that the Freshman elections are essentially a farce; that the Union Committee, in spite of its un-democratic nature, is the logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made...