Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night's action by the Student Council in doing away with the Freshman election and transferring the functions formerly performed by the class officers to the Union Committee is the culmination of three years of agitation, during which period the CRIMSON has favored the abolition of elections...
Approximately two-thirds of the class voted in the surprise referendum, which was heralded only by a placard in the Union last night and announcements in this morning's CRIMSON. Twenty ballots were invalidated since they were unsigned...
...system of class elections was started in the last century and has gradually been reduced from annual elections for every class...
...date scheduled for the elections; unfortunately the petition bringing to our attention the dissatisfaction of some fifty-four members of '42 with the system was not presented until last Thursday. As it is, the Crimson is right in suggesting that the presentation of the question to the class has been onesided. The publicity in the Crimson has been almost wholly adverse to the retention of the elections. I should have thought that the timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson say, "Byrits timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede Freshmen into...
Knowing the feeling of the Crimson on the elections questions, I thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear--how wellfounded I don't know--that too few Freshmen really agree with the Crimson. James Tobin '39, Member of the Student Council...