The position of the Class Day Committee in regard to the sale of tickets is, we believe, advisable and certainly it is justifiable.

The class elects a committee to regulate the affairs of Class Day because they believe that the work can be done infinitely better by a few representatives than by the class as a whole. The class delegate their power to the committee, and the committee, so long as its plans plainly meet the approval of a majority of the class, can rightfully expect that every member of the class shall respect their vote precisely as much as if it were a formal vote of the class.

The committee ask nothing unreasonable. They simply ask for such action by the members of the class as will ensure that all members have an equal chance in purchasing seats, and that no seats go to outsiders until the wants of the seniors have been supplied. It is not enough that some men should say that they could sell tickets and still come within the spirit of this rule. The whole strength of the numbering system has gone to pieces when the committee loses track of some of the tickets and if infringement commences, who can prophesy the end? If some men say that it is right for them to break the rule in one way, other men will be sure to say that it is right for them to break it in another. All must abide by it or none can be justly expected to do so.

No man with honor can purchase a ticket which he intends to use contrary to the plainly stated conditions of the sale. No man with intelligence can fail to see that such an affair as Class Day cannot be managed satisfactorily unless there is order, and that there cannot be order unless each man will sink his individual preferences in the will of the majority.

The most effective means for stopping the threatened abuse is for all men in the class who support the committee to be emphatic in expressing, on occasion, their approval of the rule and their contempt for the men who propose to violate it.