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...Nominating Committee has very wisely included in its election schedule the provision which was instituted last year in regard to the election of the Secretary with the members of committees. In the life of the class after graduation the Secretary is the most important officer, though in popular estimation the marshalships carry more prestige. By providing that men defeated in the first elections may still be put up for Secretary the range of choice is made to include all the available men in the class...
Another precaution which each class must take for itself in regard to this office is the selection of a man who is going to live in the vicinity of Boston. On its face such a narrowing of choice would seem to be undemocratic and tending to sectionalism, but the experience of those who have had most to do with alumni affairs has shown again and again that a Secretary of only ordinary attainments living in close proximity to Boston is a more valuable officer than a brilliant man who resides at a distance. Since the centralization of alumni interests...
...Athletic Committee is to be congratulated upon the action which it took last evening with regard to the readjustment of football rules. The necessity of some revision is only too apparent, and we are glad to see the Athletic Committee taking the first step in this matter. It now rests with the Advisory Committee on Football to suggest alterations in the rules capable of correcting the present evils of the game, not only in theory, but in practice...
...believe that there is considerable dissatisfaction among those who interest themselves in athletics in regard to the conditions under which "H's" are distributed in at least one branch of sport. That is cross-country running. In order to win an "H" under the present system one must lead a field of about seventy men in the intercollegiate run, and one must also have the good fortune to be on the winning team. If the framers of this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen...
...committee will receive petitions up to the closing of the docket of the Massachusetts Legislature toward the end of January from any member of the University with regard to presenting bills on any subject. The first meeting of the committee will be held on December 7 at a place to be announced later. Petitions to be discussed at this meeting must be mailed, addressed to the committee, Box 84, at least a week before the meeting, with the signed statement that the petitioner will appear and argue for the bill at the session...