Word: marshalships
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...very great. It usually happens that when Seniors elect their secretary they have little idea of his duties, or of the qualifications of a the man they select. Sometimes, the class secretaryship seems to be given as a consolation prize to a candidate who failed to get a marshalship. Occasionally, a popular athlete finds himself landed in a position which he accepts as a token of the good will of his classmates, before he understands the strenuous duties it involves--duties for which be may have neither taste nor aptitude. During the past dozen years several secretaries have been chosen...
...which was put forward as betraying the interests of the University was a statement concerning the class elections. This was to the effect that a certain man would run practically on an independent ticket for marshalship. Just what the secret committees of the secret societies had done in the preparation of their "slate" few outsiders had any means of finding out, but it was report so common that even editors of the CRIMSON must have heard of it, that there was much opposition to the nomination of the man in question, and that he was run independently. That a clique...
...defeated candidate for a marshalship may be nominated in the meeting, by any one, for a place on one of the committees...
...altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution of the difficulty will be suggested...
...name on the official ballot for more than one office, had been without the alternative (placed by mistake under Clause VII), then the plan would be open to the objection pointed out in the editorial, namely, that if a prominent Senior should fail to be elected, say to a marshalship, the class would have no opportunity to give him a place lower down on the list. But if the eighteen places were divided into the two groups into which they logically fall; if, as was proposed in the alternative to Clause III, the secretary, marshals, literary officers, and chorister, were...