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With the constitution as it now stands, there is no alternative but to continue the balloting until the 60 percent quota is reached...
...honored, they wish to be regarded as the "big men" in the class. In the meantime the college will be enjoying its peculiar form of election enjoyment--perhaps to add to the interest the CRIMSON might erect a clock to mark the success of the campaign, per cent by percent...
Class elections during the past few years have been a farce. When a rule has to be passed requiring a bare sixty percent of the class to vote to make the election valid, and when even under that rule two or three successive elections are necessary, it shows one of two conditions: either that that students are asleep or that class officers are non-essentials. If we judge by the noise made over last year's elections, it seems scarcely possible that the students are asleep; the only alternative is that they do not want class officers...
...tried, they should stay away from the polls. It is as absurd for a man to vote just because his roommate does or because he has a personal friend among the nominees as it is for him not to vote because he is too lazy. If the required sixty percent does not vote, the Student Council should take immediate steps for a change in the class constitutions; if the election is successful, the present system will be vindicated...
According to the amendment to the constitutions adopted on May 29, 1920, at least sixty percent of the class must vote in order to make the election valid. The elections will be held Tuesday from 8.30 A. M. to 5.30 P. M., when all '23 and '24 men should vote either at the Class of '77 gate (behind Widener Library) or at the polls at Memorial Hall entrance...