Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present system of selecting all the Senior class officers by a test of popularity is a custom which should be classed as obsolete. The officers fall naturally into two groups--those which are purely honorary--the marshals for example, and those involving a certain amount of responsibility and work such as the poet, the odist, the secretaries and the various committees...
...must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should not be submitted anonymously so that there might be some room left for choices in personality...
...This system would be applied with difficulty to such an office as that of orator. Few people would attend or even be interested in a speaking competition. However, it would undoubtedly remove the most glaring fault which allows a man whose capacities may be unknown to be elected because his name happened to have received more publicity than his opponents...
...sided victory of the Yale Phi Beta Kappa baseball team over the Cambridge Cerebelli comes as a refreshing aftermath to our slaughter in the "brain battle" of a year ago, when Harvard won by a system of cross-country scoring. Yale can once more raise her head and walk proudly among the colleges, as she contemplates the dual renaissance of intellect and physique which dawns on New Haven. Mother Yale has once more taken to developing well-rounded...
...Student Council budget system which Hoyt will direct next year, was inaugurated in the fall of 1926 and has proved so successful in the past three years that it has become a fixed institution. The system is intended to facilitate the collection of funds for the various drives which occur during the year, and it is the duty of the Student Council Budget Committee to regulate the distribution of these funds...