Suffrage is the Badge of all Our Race

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

The arrival of a little yellow post card has just reminded me that there is a Class Administration. In fact, these annual ballots are the only apparent phenomena of that august body, and will pass on to posterity as the chief monument to its existence!

Nowhere have I seen or heard any evidence that the Class President, the Class Vice-President, the Class Secretary-Treasurer are worth the fuss and bother of their election. All their duty is to nominate their successors; all their qualifications are glory on the athletic field and dance floor; all their constituency is the mere handful of friends who are for the moment sufficiently non-indifferent enough to cast rose petals at their feet through a vague sort of Private School Spirit. No majority enthusiasm or representative election ever seems to take place; the same old Back Bay names and faces continue to decorate the Red Book and Class Album front-pages!

I believe that the House Plan has removed the last vestiges of reason for having Class Officers in any but the Freshman Class, where Smokers and Jubilees have still to be attended to. The Student Council takes care of all undergraduate matters such as hockey game riots and the size of the Phillips Brooks House subsidy. The House Committees amuse themselves with arrangements for teas and dances, and debate their time on the unsolved question of chaperones. And the Permanent Secretary, elected by the graduating class prior to Commencement, inherits the dirty work or organizing Class Reunions.

What else is left for the Sophomore President, the Junior President, the Senior President, and all their co-incumbents to do? I think this is an excellent time to abolish an outgrown sinecure. Henceforth let us bouquet our friends, not with ballots, but with the Heroic Couplet and the Shakespearian Sonnet if need be! Eugene Du Bois '33.