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...conveyed is, in a degree, erroneous. It cannot be denied that the members of a society will vote for a candidate who is a member of their own fraternity in preferance to another with whom they are less well acquainted. Yet to our knowledge there has been no society caucus held, nor is there any society sate to be presented at the meeting to-night. In fact, if we are not misinformed, the constitutions of the three senior fraternities expressly prohibit any participation in class politics. We therefore urge every non-society man to attend the election, with the assurance...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It has been customary in past years, at least up to the time of '85, for the non-society men of the senior class to hold a caucus and to perfect an organization to counteract in some degree the so-called "influence" of the large societies in the election of class-day officers. While I by no means wish to imply that the present state of affairs demands such concerted action, I wish through your columns to impress on non-society men the importance of a full attendance at the election. This not only would tend...
...freshmen had three (3) lines extra in Greek last week. In class caucus they decided not to submit to such gross injustice.- Williams Fortnight...
...college man should be prepared to take his share of the work bravely, for, having the best education, college men ought not take positions in the rear and allow themselves to be led in politics by men who are their inferiors except in their ability for "wire-pulling" and "caucus packing...
...Commons, and it is not considered by any means, a breach of party faith. The result has frequently been, to elect the candidate of the minority. Especially was this the case in the last election in which the Conservatives lost a number of seats. So that now, a caucus system has been devised called the "Birmingham System," which in many respects resembles the one in vogue in this country. In London, for instance, the districts have been divided into a number of wards, each of which send two delegates to a caucus, numbering in the aggregate four hundred, which proceeds...