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...Saturday morning the Advertiser, after giving the list of officers elected by the Class of '76, made the following brilliant remark: "This was a victory for the Puddings, and a return to the vicious system of society influence in elections." Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise...
...voluntary recitations by which he may regard the average attendance as in no sense indicative of the success of the plan, he is bound to remember that the authorities, having no other obvious criterion, have decided that attendance is to be held the proof and guaranty of the system...
...other elements of the class. In judging the elections we suspect that some, who are dissatisfied, have not wholly freed themselves from the old notions, and, while desiring an open election, have forgotten its very essence. And here it is very properly claimed by the friends of the new system that it succeeds if it selects able and fit men for the places irrespective of the "element" they may belong to. The criterion is not that the "elements" have an exact numerical representation, but that positions of responsibility be filled by men who are qualified, and who will do credit...
...print in another column the class officers of Seventy-six. The selection is the result of the open election system, and, as it seems to us, is happy enough to commend the system to following classes. The system has theoretic strength, as is shown by the marked harmony of the class in its adoption, and, as far as one experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success...
...direction. We take it that the idea was not so much to bring men to get off their conditions on the first trial as to give some recompense to the tutor, whose work is increased by their carelessness or stupidity. If more such measures were introduced, if a system of fines should be substituted in part for the system of censure-marks, we believe that the result would give general satisfaction. We could then be allowed privileges which we should have to pay for in case we chose to enjoy them, and thus both the independence of the undergraduate...