Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition, signed by about 100 Freshmen, last year caused the Council to appoint a committee to investigate the existing system. The report which this committee made recommended that elections be retained but postponed for a month, from February to March, in order to extend the effectiveness of the Union Committee...
...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 spirit into the forms. Until then, may the last class election at Harvard rest in peace...
...Mississippi State College for Women lonely Freshmen these days are forced by upperclassmen to play a game combining the salient characteristics of "post office" and "dear lonely heart" which has resulted in a flood of fan mail addressed Harvard men, sight unseen...
...been onesided. The publicity in the Crimson has been almost wholly adverse to the retention of the elections. I should have thought that the timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson say, "Byrits timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede Freshmen into approval of the old system." Does the reference to "its management" mean that the Crimson thinks the Council will stuff the ballot...
...thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear--how wellfounded I don't know--that too few Freshmen really agree with the Crimson. James Tobin '39, Member of the Student Council...