Word: customers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...
...tried and sometimes it succeeds. Worst of all, if the class has a well-grounded dissatisfaction over any class officer, opposition to his re-election cannot be organized without dragging into the discussion personalities which must be distasteful to everybody. It is largely because of this that the custom is so fixed of continuing men in office when once they are elected in the Freshman year...
...only excuse that I have been able to elicit from an instructor concerning this custom, was, that if the papers were given back a great deal of trouble would be caused by complaints over marks. In other words personal annoyance was given as the cause of hiding the marks from the student...
According to the usual custom, the men will be immediately divided up into class squads, and these squads will regularly practice three evenings a week, at hours to be announced in the CRIMSON on Monday. Each squad will be under the supervision of a coach. Line-ups will begin at the first practice and the faults of the men noted in actual play. Both the Gymnasium floor and the regular basketball cage will be used this winter...
...order to afford debaters the chance of speaking before larger and more varied audiences than can be secured at Cambridge and at the same time to observe other styles of speaking than that used at Harvard, the custom of holding outside class debates will be resumed this year. During the second half year each of the class clubs will have at least one debate with some outside institution. In the past, debates of this sort have been held with Bates College, Boston University, The Young Men's Congress of Boston, Holy Cross College and Exeter Academy