Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In putting himself on record as an advocate of "an occasional good-natured recount" just to "lift the institution from the withered hand of tradition," this director of the election has committed the grave error of at once ridiculing the entire Senior Class election system and the dignity of class...
Nevertheless, several facts have emerged which lend coherence to this unprecedented occurrence in Harvard history. Owing to the closeness of the election, Robert S. Playfair '36 and Braman Gibbs '36, the Juniors in charge of the voting, decided to hold a recount which they conducted Thursday and Friday, December 20...
Bowditch, winner in the first election, prepared for Harvard at Milten. He is president of the Student Council, member of the Dunster House Committee, and secretary-treasurer of Phillips Brooks House. In his Freshman year he was president of the Class of 1935 and played on the football team.
That the recount, announced in such peculiar fashion, apparently had no authorization, which would have been easily obtainable, is unfortunate, but if this is the story which the ballots of a capably run election tell, the results must stand. The rumors of inefficiency which surround the conduct of the elections...
For the present, it is sufficient to say that the Juniors showed a deplorable lack of tact in failing to notify the Student Council of their action and in presenting it without consultation to the outside world in such an unfavorable light. Consciously or unconsciously, they have placed two leading...