Word: slate
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tradition says there shall be no nominating speeches in the elections for Class Day officers, and it is high time that a precedent be established abolishing printed slates or any other machinery designed to prevent open contests and free choice. No men should be given the advantage of having their names appear on a printed ticket which announces, virtually, though not in so many words, that those names have the backing of the usual society combine. Each candidate whether he belongs to a society or not, should stand on his merits as an individual. The active managers representing the organized...
...system of having a minority of Harvard seniors choose for the majority when no such power has been delegated by the majority is obviously wrong in principle, and the managers in doing the work of self-appointed slate makers are often guilty of conduct unbecoming students of Harvard or any honest men. For the past two years, to the writer's personal knowledge, officers have been chosen only nominally by the whole class, actually by a small but well disciplined minority. With a very slight reform not only the marshalships-which as a rule the managers wisely yield...
...aside from the consideration of the gain we might reasonably expect from this reform, Harvard love of truth ought to impel '97 men, as soon as the evil of slate election is brought to their notice, to take prompt action to insure that the honors they are about to bestow be fairly and honestly won. There will be close contests for some places; friends will solicit votes for their favorites; that is inevitable. There should be, however, no more iron-clad pledging of men, in clubs or out, to support a man for a particular office merely because his name...
...committee consisting of Messrs. Youngman, Holden and Child was appointed to make up a slate of officers. The committee presented the following slate, which was accepted by acclamation...
...their action. And these men are found in every college class. Yet we are loath to believe that there are many men in ninety-four who have not sufficient manliness about them to sink their own little ambitions in the welfare of the class. If the wirepulling and slate-making affected the class alone the harm would not be so great, but the influence does not stop with the class. If a slate is practically elected before it is really elected, if certain athletes get certain places and men from various societies take the rest and the whole thing...