Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooting is over. Freshmen will not troop past the polls today as the by-laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
...spite of the bungling management--and it can only be called bungling when Yardlings are rudely jarred out of their sleep of a Monday morning to decide a matter of such weighty proportions--Freshmen have shown their ability to arrive at the one rational answer. And have answered in such a sweeping manner that none can doubt their conviction, that none can ignore their mandate...
...than that of the present one--means anything at all. In the light of this, it would seem that Yardlings have in the past been driven to the polls against their wills. Just as the Communists would force the workers to be free, the Student Council has forced the Freshmen to be "democratic", and has met all protest with investigations which followed the same lines and reports which repeated the same formulate. Year upon year the Freshmen have indifferently exercised their democratic prerogatives, realizing all along that the forms were a farce...
...tendered on the basis of notoriety rather than ability. Since the members of the class have not had the opportunity to learn to know each other, votes are dictated by completely false and illogical standards. The athlete and the milk-drinking champion triumph over the able executive. Perhaps freshmen should be given an opportunity to recognize their fellows, but in this case a spade should be called a spade. Elections should then be for the Most Popular Boy and the Best Athlete, rather than Class President and Class Treasurer--terms which connote something entirely different...
...cynical and frivolous attitude toward democratic forms which this situation produces does greater harm than a complete failure to exercise a democratic prerogative. The opportunity to vote will be offered students under far more auspicious circumstances in later years. In the Yard, however, elections are synonymous with hypocrisy, and freshmen conscious of this will abolish the two together...