Word: sevens
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...other machinery designed to prevent open contests and free choice." Well and good. But what has this last to do with nominating speeches, or is any connection intended? Does "Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected the good English courses shamefully. [See Rhetoric: "Clearness...
Whatever the motive here intended, after "Graduate" has had his say Ninety-seven is no better off as to the question how she shall best choose her Class Day officers, than she was before. The present system has its evils,- no one will deny that, and it also has its distinct advantages. There is a golden opportunity right here for "Graduate" to devise some better scheme than the existing one, and render thereby a distinct service to Harvard, not to mention the gain for himself in immortality...
...class may accept this list by the vote of its majority, or it may reject it, and "Graduates" reference to "intimidation" is as fictitious as it is positively foolish. To recapitulate, then, the strongest argument for the present system is that the one proposed offers no improvement. Ninety-seven would gladly welcome a change for the better, but up to and including "Graduate's" article, none has been proposed...
Tonight the Senior Class will hold the most important meeting of its college course for the election of the Ninety-seven Class Day officers. Every member of the class, unless he be sick or unavoidably prevented from attending the meeting should be present and, for each office, vote for the man whom he thinks best fitted for the position...
...meeting will be held this evening at seven o'clock in Upper Massachusetts...