Word: marshalships
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...five so called literary offices, including choristers, to be voted for on the first day. Then nominations for the nine committee places may be made on the day following the announcement of the results of the first election, so that a prominent candidate who had failed to get a marshalship might still be put up for a committee place to take his chances in a second election. The aims of this plan are simply to put the election on a more democratic and up to date footing, to obliterate society lines, and thereby to minimize the evils which are always...
...trouble is that which forbids the nomination of the same candidate for more than one office. It is of course understood that no individual shall hold more than one office. On the other hand, it would be a misfortune to the class, in case of a contest over a marshalship, for instance, to deprive the defeated candidate of all chance to be placed lower down on the list. This drawback, which seems an essential part of any system of secret ballot, should if possible be eliminated, and we urge most earnestly that every effort be made to remove such difficulties...
...Harvard division, which will be the most prominent in the parade, will be under the marshalship of W. S. Garrison, Jr. Old John and Annex on a dray will be prominent features. The Glee Club will march in a body and sing popular airs along the route. Red lights, to be furnished by the club, will be distributed on Monday. Several bands have been engaged. The transparencies will be confined to opinions of Bryan and Sound Money, the non-partisan element in the parade not allowing the use of the names of either Palmer and Buckner or McKinley and Hobart...
...university, together with the presidents and marshals of the various classes in each department, and escorted to Ann Arbor. On arriving at the station he will be greeted by the remainder of the faculty and the students, the latter arranged by departments and classes and under the marshalship of Longie Jones, assistant professor of mathematics, whose commanding statue, six feet, five and one-half inches, renders him peculiarly fitted for this part. The city authorities also have been invited to take part in the procession. After a triumphal march to the presidential residence, Prexie will be left in the bosom...