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...entered College with the Class of 1925, and all transfer students registered as 1925 are eligible to vote. All such men are considered as members of the Sophomore Class, and the sixty percent vote of the class which is required-to make the election valid is reckoned on that basis. The election committee wishes to emphasize the fact that it is highly necessary for all such men to vote, and it suggests that all men who are in doubt regarding their present standing should cast their vote anyway. The question of the validity of the vote will be settled...
...reached such large proportions by the beginning of 1922 that careful estimates indicate that in our cities it amounted to as much as the total amount of building normally done in two and a half years. This means that the construction industry would have to work at 25 percent above its normal output for 10 years to make good the accumulated deficiency. In view of the amount of this shortage and its widespread distributions, it seems entirely probable that the building boom of 1922 will continue through 1923, but probably with somewhat diminished vigor...
Last year there was much comment on the failure of class elections, due to the lack of interest by the necessary sixty percent of the class to cast their votes. The whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular...
...absence of feeling like this of any feeling at all, as a matter of fact, that results in a thirty or forty percent vote at the class elections. The upper classes, Senior, Junior, and Sophomore, may be too old to be infected, no matter how much they are exposed, but it is not likely. The spirit is contagious and once it catches hold, it spreads like wildfire...
...course. Fitzgerald, if he has done no more, has at all events painted a very lively and life-like picture of the present youthful generation in full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...