Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Seniors class farce, sub-titled "class election," is again taking place. The Senior council has appointed a nominating committee which in return has re-nominated the Senior council for all the class marshalships. The nominations for minor offices were made not with the idea of picking the best men for the offices, but, as one member of the senior council put it, men were selected who could "get the votes.' In other words, the nominating committee's ideas as tow ho could get the votes seem to be the controlling factor in this election. Therefore, why not dispense with...
...four years now is has been assumed that the members of the class are incompetent to nominate as well as elect their own officers. A veritable hierarchy has appeared. You either vote "yes" or you don't vote at all. The nominating committee makes a pretty pretense of pacifying all parties by picking a few stuffed shirts from the ranks of what they consider the representative elements in the school; a few club men, a few commuters; and a few athletes are scattered indiscriminately among the nominations...
Elections for class treasurer, chorister, orator, odist, and poet will take place at the same time. Monday, before the election, the CRIMSON will run an election insert giving pictures and biographies of all the candidates...
With a petition that John A. Sullivan of Brookline be added to the list of candidates for class orator and one candidate requesting to drop from the election, Nathaniel G. Benchley, chairman of the Nominating Committee, announced last night that the final list of candidates for Senior class officers is complete...
...request Arthur M. Schlesinger was dropped from those on the ballot for Senior class odist. Elections will be held March 1 and 2 with ballot boxes stationed in all the house dining halls, in Dudley Hall, and in Yard classrooms...