Word: holding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson in an editorial Monday morning accused the Student Council of bad faith in deciding to hold a referendum on the question of Freshman elections. According to the Crimson, "If elections were to be abolished by the decision rendered today; it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand." At this writing, Monday afternoon, I do not know how the referendum is going to turn, out. I do know that if the Nays have it, the Council tonight...
...Council would have preferred to hold the referendum farther in advance of the date scheduled for the elections; unfortunately the petition bringing to our attention the dissatisfaction of some fifty-four members of '42 with the system was not presented until last Thursday. As it is, the Crimson is right in suggesting that the presentation of the question to the class has 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...
Yale's place in the sun as foils champion is endangered by N. Y. U. and the Crimson, who walked away with top honors in this division in the pentagonals. Paul Perlowin of last year's Eli foils titlists remains, but A1 Labastie, Cranny Jones, and Art Jaros will hold up the Harvard side of things. Epeemen Hal Park and Bill Croach should be among the leading contenders for their division crown, and Tom Wright and Captain Skip Batchelder rate up with the high ranking saber artists...
...eminent political statistician, Emil Hurja, observes that early leaders of popular polls (as now taken) invariably hold their leads and win in the end.-"Cactus Jack" Garner leads current polls for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 and Mr. Hurja does not mind saying that the forces now putting Mr. Garner ahead will keep him there through the 1940 Democratic convention. Political events, says Mr. Hurja, nowadays follow the drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja...
...group is learning the fundamental technique through Columbia Broadcasting records which CBS has donated to the Workshop together with numerous copies of working scripts. Once this is mastered they intend to hold a competition among themselves for possible scripts to augment those which they already have...