Word: though
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON, which I presume from the initials of the signature to be written by the Chairman of the Elections Committee, shows a strange failure to appreciate the conditions under which the Senior elections were held. The difficulty was not that the polling places were not accessible to enough voters, though that may have been the cause of a few abstentions, but rather that the facilities were inadequate to take care of the men who did use those buildings...
...class deems these elections so important that they warrant the personal attention of every member even though certainly a quarter of these members have no concern in them, and do not know the candidates. I repeat, if this is true, then the elections should be taken out of student hands. It might even be worthwhile to bring in mercenaries...
...Though the center is still in the period of formulation. It is interesting because of its resemblance to the Harvard Union, in which the University once hoped to find a solution to the same problem of reintegration to which the House Plan now seeks the key. Whether Princeton will have better success with a medium which Harvard found, inadequate, or will be forced to take other and further steps, will depend upon her own conditions...
...extra time required, a slight additional expense, and the important matter of intelligent voting, which is doubtless aided by the presence of candidates photographs at a more accessible place than in the Red Books in the rooms of 600 Seniors. In any case, this method deserves trial, though it is probably too late for the present committee to employ...
...hardly more than a dignification and moralistic extension of the Harvard tutorial system, are significant only as more paternalism and increased floor space. After all Harvard would have been rather silly in the eyes of the world to turn down Mr. Edward F. Harkness' preferred eleven millions-even though he tied up the gift with the requirement that it must be used for student-faculty "houses." Michigan Daily...