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...word can summarize these posts and their seekers: RESUME. Nowhere else will you find the largest collection of resume-stuffers in the world than on the ballots for these two elected posts. Class Marshal and the council are perfect: they require little time, but they sound like examples of leadership and responsibility, just what is needed for a job interview or that old fellowship application...
...Class Marshal. As Class Marshal for the Harvard Class of 1989, I was elected as part of an elite group of highly motivated leaders who embodied the spirit and talents of my entire class of America's elite students. I also devised ways for the senior class to have fun. Without me, this would not have been possible. 40 hours per week...
...fact, the candidates don't really need help with their resumes--they've been building them for years and years. Take a look at the Class Marshal candidates in the October 4 Crimson. About 70 percent of the people with the little pictures and small type have at least four or more activities listed. Of course these activities have monopolized most of their time and energy--that's why they're able to do so many...
DOESN'T it seem that the Class Marshal positions are destined for those who worry most about status and resume, i.e. Eliot House residents? At least Eliot seems to think so, offering the most candidates in both Harvard and Radcliffe contests--17 all together. Although they photographed beautifully, the Eliot candidates didn't really need the portraits--anyone who has ever walked by a final club would recognize them. It's just surprising that they didn't list their club affiliations. (Come on you D.U. and Phoenix members, did you think the voters would discriminate against...
...course, the candidates all self-selected themselves. And isn't it true that greatness attracts greatness? Or is that just the impression garnered from the class marshals ballots, which seem to have whole rooming groups represented on them? Or maybe that's the impression one gets from always seeing many of the marshal hopefuls eating their meals together, or standing in big groups at parties together doing their best to appear happy...