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...modification, or even the return to the old state of things, would be conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation...
...Stuffed Club" system, and in a less degree, in the method of nomination pursued last year, many men found their representatives chosen for them without regard to their consent. By a curious contradiction in terms, however, the officers elected were called Class-Day officers, and assumed to represent the class. As long as Class Day is to be an occasion commemorative of class traditions and associations, no stretch of the imagination can make it other than a "snatch and have" proceeding for any section of a class - even "a limited body of men of fashion" to arrogate to itself...
...arguments by which our young oligarch would betray the demos are not difficult to criticise. They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...