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Riding to victory by a substantial margin of 40 votes, Edmond La Beaume Cherbonnier '39 of St. Louis and Winthrop House was elected President of the Phillips Brooks House Association yesterday...
...April, can easily kindle a stingaree of a riot. More important is the fact that a Convention will undoubtedly lead to every conceivable kind of politics, vote-staggering, filibustering, and what not. Second, the Committee's idea of protesting an election in which the winners win by a slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions...
Captain von Stade was the evening's leading scorer by a large margin, turning in a total of seven goals. Ben Forbes and Gaylord Dillingham, at number 1 and 2 positions respectively, divided the rest of the Crimson goals between them, scoring six apiece...
Perhaps most radical change suggested in the statement is the declaration that "we oppose a method of election whereby a candidate with a slight margin, frequently one or two votes, is declared elected even though he has polled nothing resembling a majority of the votes cast...
Saturday night's defeat at the hands of the surprising Princeton hoopmen by a 37-20 margin definitely wiped out the Crimson quintet's aspirations for a share of the Ivy League championship...