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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The letter in yesterday morning's CRIMSON, which I presume from the initials of the signature to be written by the Chairman of the Elections Committee, shows a strange failure to appreciate the conditions under which the Senior elections were held. The difficulty was not that the polling places were not accessible to enough voters, though that may have been the cause of a few abstentions, but rather that the facilities were inadequate to take care of the men who did use those buildings.

Students such as myself, who have classes during all three of the hours when the polling places were open, have no great amount of time free during the period. If one of the courses meets at a distant point such as Mallinckrodt, there is but a minute or two which could be spared for voting. Yet the crowd around the tables in Sever and Harvard Halls was so thick that no one without plenty of time on his hands could attack it, with any hope of both voting and attending his class. It would not have been hard to have more watchers during the few brief periods when voting was heavy, and in general to provide facilities that would be adequate for the numbers using them. John C. Gray '30.