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...Cornell Senior Class elections occurred on Saturday, January 27, and were attended by "the usual wire-pulling, cliquing, slanders, misrepresentations, and ill feeling...
...some weeks the Era has been laboring to bring the total depravity reached in the Senior Class elections at Harvard within the comprehension of its readers, and has at last succeeded, speaking of the elections as "a contest to which the worst ward elections in New York bear no comparison." Then follows the statement: "A committee of the Faculty has been appointed to investigate the affair, and in case any instances of bribery or trading of votes are detected, the offenders will probably be summarily dealt with...
...report that a committee had been appointed to investigate the Senior-Class elections turns out to be founded on the existence of a Sub-Committee on Class Day, composed of members of the Visiting Committee on Discipline. The members of the Committee, it is reported, would be glad to assist in any way possible towards a successful Class...
...change I would suggest to the present Senior Class is to abandon this farce of class lives, and have a large class-book with pages assigned to every man ever connected with the class. Have a brief simple history, comprising some few salient points, such as date of birth, name of father, and time connected with class; let each man write the secretary at least every two years, and from these letters let his "history" be collated by the secretary. It is absurd with such large classes as we have now to attempt individual lives of every member...
...thinks the less of them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take a First Class in classics, and he will be known and respected. He may take a Fellowship, and have for a few years an independent income, unshackled by obligations and conditions...