Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halls yesterday represents the culmination of one of the most unfortunate incidents to occur at Harvard during the past four years. After reading it and considering its implications, one can only conclude that whatever the intent of its framers, it unfairly damages the reputation of a single individual--Marc Leland...
...petition points out that the Student Council should not run the Class Marshal elections since it usually has one of its members as a candidate, in this case, Leland. This is probably a cogent criticism, but the fact remains that the Student Council has been running this election for many years, and there can be no good reason for choosing 1958-59 as the year to have a new election under a hastily instituted new procedure...
...points which precede it. The petition, against the implications of which there is no possible defense, has already created a very considerable degree of unrest, for it obviously implies that there was dishonesty involved in the ballot-counting on December 11, and further, that this dishonesty was responsible for Leland's victory...
...undersigned Senior Class Marshals therefore appeal to the members of the Senior Class to deny this petition their support. Dyke Benjamin Marc Leland Richard Rubenstein
...Marshals themselves split into two factions, with Robert R. Foster '59 standing in favor of a new election if a sufficient number of seniors, through the petition, should demand it. Foster is second Marshal. The other two Marshals, Marc E. Leland '59 and R. Dyke Benjamin '59, and alternate Marshal Richard E. Ruben- stein '59 issued a joint statement claiming that the election was "honest and legitimate," and asked the Senior Class "to deny this petition (its) support...