Word: election
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future? It would seem best to abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine...
Most likely to be M. le Président No. 6 to finish the full term of office is the incumbent, Albert Lebrun, whose seven years as "prisoner of Marianne" end May 10. Last week, the Cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...
Eric Cutler, of Harvard, Russell Greenhood, of Harvard, Bill Garrett, of Army, and Justin Callahan, of Columbia were the men who copped League titles. Cutler won the quarter-mile in 4.57.6, a new meet record, and a personal record for the Crimson captain-elect. He eclipsed Harry Rawstrom's old mark of 5:03.7, made last year...
...squad will represent the Crimson in Eliland. Coach Hal Ulen, Captain Rusty Greenhood, Captain-elect Eric Cutler, Jim Curwen, Frannie Powers, Chet Sagenkahn, and Ed Hewitt departed yesterday afternoon and are determined to return to Cambridge with a large collection of League titles to make up for the defeats suffered at the hands of Princeton and Yale...
With Ulen's swimmers doing their best, it is possible that they may elect as many as five crowns. Greenhood, last year's titleholder in both the high and low board events, is favored to win again, especially because his toughest opponents will not be competing this year...