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...Freshman class failed to cast the quota of votes necessary for the election of officers, the voting will be continued in the Standish Hall Common Room this afternoon from 12 until 6 o'clock. According to Article III, Section 10, in the constitution of the three lower classes, 60 percent of more of the members of the class must-vote before an election of class officers is declared valid. Yesterday only 449 men voted whereas 522 are needed to give the desired quota...
According to Article III, Section 10, in the constitution of the three lower classes, 60 percent or more of the members of the class must vote before and election of class officers is declared valid...
...words the Ku Klux Klan is "a secret and militant organization". Whenever possible its true name is kept silent in the presence of those unfortunate enough not to be members. In proselyting, both in the University and elsewhere, it is attractively garbed as "an organization of one hundred percent Americans", with the reservation that they be, "native born citizens of the United States, white, Protestant, Gentile" (and, also acceptable--but not required) "intelligent, honest, loyal and fearless...
...Freshmen vote on March 1. They will probably finish in one day. They will get their 60 percent quota without difficulty: They have yet to learn of the Harvard tradition, "Don't vote unless you feel like it. What's the use?" But unless "something is done about it", the class of 1925 will go down on record with the other three classes now in college as "Just another example of Harvard indifference." When the newness has worn off, when the Freshman becomes that worldly-wise gentleman, the Sophomore, the ghost of the voting question will rise again...
...Junior class the A's have a representative proportion in the first three groups of the rank list over fifteen percent better than the Z's. Yet the raw, crude brain was never alphabetically alloted. The system creates alphabetical cliques. Instead of friendships formed by ties of similar tastes, lecture room friendships are made among men by letters. The only man to profit by alphabetical seating is the monitor; for the rest it is an abridging of the evolutionary right to freedom of selection. The German generals card-indexed the War; shall Harvard alphabetize instruction...