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...infinitely better for all concerned to have a nominating body made up of men of intelligence, foresight and executive ability, not bound by pledges prematurely given, and acting as best they saw fit in the light of changing circumstances, than it is for the party to continue to function through the medium of an assembly of acquiescent figure-heads under the domination of a few clever leaders. May the hand of progress soon ring the curtain down upon the farce of the preferential primary...
...Professors so electing distribute ballots at the next meeting of their classes and instruct the men that they are to choose a committee from their own number whose function it shall be to criticise the course.--Let the Professor in charge of each course convene these men as quickly as possible and instruct them in gist as follows: 'It is your function to act as a clearing house for criticism of this course. One month from date I am going to ask you to give me an accurate summary of your classmates' view on this course. I want frank, straightforward...
...that the Military Intelligence Department attained such a high grade of efficiency during the war. General Mangin, of the French Army, in speaking of General Nolen's work, said: "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American staff to learn to function properly under modern conditions...
After all, what is the function of the class president? If perchance a student was blest with 250 pounds of beef, and because of this merit won a position on the line of the football team, he might become a class president. And the class would get on as well, I daresay, as if it had elected one of its young Disraelis instead...
...likelihood that the Freshman Jubilee will be cancelled this spring is almost incredible to the upper classmen who have taken part in that function in past years. It appears that the Freshman class is like a spoiled child who must be disciplined by the threat' of taking away one of his toys. There is little doubt that the class of 1923 has been spoiled. Now the very Jubilee itself is to be considered a gift from the Faculty and not a thing to be worked for by the class...