Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe are the underlying causes of the present high cost of living. For the strikers to decrease production still further is doing nothing but taking their newly acquired money from their own pockets...
...frankly, what reason is there for anyone to become indignant at this lack of interest? Under the present system of choosing officers it is inevitable. The candidates stand for no platform, there are no conflicting issues, so that the prospective voter is not able to choose an officer because of what he represents. Nor may he be guided by some one man's special fitness for the office, because almost any man would be able to discharge suitably the not onerous duties of a class officer. So the whole matter becomes one of friendship. Only a man's personal friends...
...talk on the conditions in Turkey at the present time will be given by Professor Edward Caldwell Moore tomorrow morning at 9.30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the University Christian Association. Professor Moore, who is chairman of the Board of Preachers and a Professor of Theology in the University, recently returned from an extended trip through Europe. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting...
...fault in the election system is generally considered to lie in the method of making the nominations. At present they are made by the retiring class officers, supplemented by petitions requiring thirty-five signatures. No good purpose is served by this way of managing it, and, as has been shown, the results may be distinctly...
...CRIMSON proposes that the class constitutions be altered so that the nominations shall be made by a convention. Direct primaries are open to the same objection as the present scheme--the undergraduates would show no more interest in primaries than they do in elections. The class meetings, if properly advertised, would draw a large gathering, and there the name of anyone proposed and seconded would be put upon the convention ballot. Then, by direct election, it could be shown who were real candidates for the respective offices and who were merely vote-splitters. The four or five leading...