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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late releases reveal that the Kirkland Deacons are strongly entrenched in first place as the Houses have gone well past the half-way mark in the year's activities. The Deacons have amassed 8511/2 points as compared to second place Lowell's 7851/2. The Bellboys, however, are expected to close the 66 point gap this spring, but whether they can overtake the flying Deacons is another question...
Last spring 347 Yardings were turned down at the first admission. This year the number will probably be greater, since the Housemasters have decided to favor upperclassmen more than they have in the past. Like finding a job in a "recession," getting into a House forces a Freshman to sell himself to the powers that be if he doesn't want to be left out in the cold of Mt. Auburn...
...past years the History I department has asked for reading notes during the more industrious first few weeks in the fall; the present request has thrown the Yard into considerable confusion...
...shooting is over. Freshmen will not troop past the polls today as the by-laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
...more anti-election than previous freshman classes. There is rather contrary evidence if the circulation of last year's abolition petition--which was much wider than that of the present one--means anything at all. In the light of this, it would seem that Yardlings have in the past been driven to the polls against their wills. Just as the Communists would force the workers to be free, the Student Council has forced the Freshmen to be "democratic", and has met all protest with investigations which followed the same lines and reports which repeated the same formulate. Year upon year...