Word: classe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Freshman class government takes its name from the Union. Each fall a group of 12 Yardlings, called the Union Committee, is chosen to administer class affairs. Up to last year, the Union Committee was replaced in the spring by elected class officers...
Last year, however, Yardlings voted against class elections after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...
With the aid of Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Student Council representative for Freshman affairs and himself an ex-Union Committee President, and of Kendrick N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and instructor in Government, the 1943 Union Committee will manage informal class dances, sponor talks, stage course reviews before examinations. It also appoints the committees which stage the Yardlings' two big blowouts; the Smoker, annual class stag party, and the Jubilee...
...chief class activities for Yardlings is the publication of the Redbook, pictorial record of the Freshman class. Other Freshman enterprises which center in the Union are the debating and photographic clubs. Most Freshman activities which are not self-supporting are financed by the Student Council...
Beyond the horizon of strictly class activities lies the broad field of College extra-curricular organizations. Annually hundreds of Freshmen turn out for undergraduate publications, managerial competitions, and a host of organizations ranging from the Circolo Italiano to the Mountaineering Club...