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...wish to call attention through your columns to the repeated discourtesies shown to the instructor in the twelve o'clock section of English C. Scraping of feet, rattling of papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University...
Signed, A MEMBER OF THE SECTION...
ENGLISH C.- Section I. will hereafter meet in two divisions, the first division at 10 o'clock in Sever 11, the second division at 12 o'clock in Harvard 6. A list of sections is posted in University Hall...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots will be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a ballot he shall be declared elected...
...would urge upon you the necessity of appointing proper persons to lead the cheering in the different sections. The statement has at times been made, and perhaps with truth, that Harvard men do not support their teams as they should; that they cannot be made to cheer. Last Saturday, however, I was treated to a novel and certainly not agreeable side of the question: A body of Harvard men, comprising one whole section, not only willing but anxious to cheer, and repeatedly asking to be led, and the usher, apparently appointed for the purpose, either afraid or to lazy...