Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terming the Senior Marshal recount, "good-natured" and asserting that such occurrences "work for the best in lifting the institution (Harvard) from the withered hand of tradition," Robert S. Playfair '36, one of the two Juniors in charge of the election, expressed his opinion on the significance of the present situation in a written statement yesterday...
Playfair also stated that the recount results may be regarded as final and that Herman Gundlach' Jr. '35, is officially First Marshal. An authoritative source told the CRIMSON last night, however, that the recount could not be regarded as final until confirmed by the Student Council...
...could be ascertained no one in Cambridge has yet heard whether Gundlach, who will reach Cambridge today from Houghton, Michigan, will accept his election. Nothing has been heard from him since E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Council and displaced Marshal, telegraphed him the news at the time of his appointment...
Somehow in the tabulation for marshal nine unsigned ballots were includ- ed by mistake in the recording. These nine ballots which were rejected gave Bowditch 6 votes for first counting 18; one vote for second counting two; and two votes for third counting two. This made a total of 22 votes which had to be subtracted from his total. These nine ballots contained only two votes for Gundlach for Third Marshal, so he lost only two votes
While many of the facts concerning the Senior Marshal recount, which places Herman Gundlach, Jr. ahead of E. Francis Bowditch by a slight margin, are still missing, it is essential that this awkward situation be cleared up immediately...