Word: electer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Eleven of the undergraduate Social Clubs have entered into an agreement with reference to elections, which is a pledge of their desire to co-operate in supporting the principles for which the Freshman Dormitories stand. One of the significant clauses of the agreement provides that "no club shall elect as a member any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of college in his Sophomore year, or before that time pledge or promise election, even by implication to such undergraduate;" other clauses forbid the taking of any individual pledge or promise to join a club before the Friday following...
Heretofore the clubs were free to elect at the beginning of the Sophomore year and there was therefore no agreement to prevent canvassing in the Freshman year. The postponement of the elections protects the Freshman year completely and prevents the Freshmen from attaching undue importance on immediately becoming involved in the club system. Clubs at Harvard are purely social and in view of this the CRIMSON heartily agrees with the sentiment expressed in the following editorial which appears in the Alumni Bulletin...
...team which played the last two games will be lost by graduation; Captain P. F. Brundage '14, F. E. Abbe '14, and G. P. Harrington '14, which will leave a large number of experienced players to build up the new twelve. Of these, the work of Captain-elect W. E. Nightingale '15, 2a.; J. R. Fleming '15, o.h.; P. Catton '15, 2d.; E. E. O'Neil '16, c.p.; and M. H. Cochran '15, g., has been the most noteworthy. From this year's Freshman team, several promising candidates will be obtained; chief among whom...
...candidates for the degree of A.M. will meet in Harvard 1 this afternoon at 5 o'clock to elect a Marshal and make other arrangements for Commencement...
...first place Phi Beta Kappa should adopt an absolute basis of scholarship for election. Its elections at present are based, with rare exceptions when a man is known to have attained, his place dishonestly, upon marks. The leading eight men in a class compose the Junior eight; and the next twenty-two, the Senior twenty-two, actual college records determine chiefly the composition of the additional ten. The announcement of its basis, however, says that eight of the first twelve men in the class are elected in Junior year, and twenty-two of the next forty-four in Senior year...