It is much to be regretted that the methods of machine politics should ever come into use in any organization of students. That they have been called forth in certain quarters in anticipation of the freshman elections is a fact to which the attention of all members of the class should be directed at once. The prevailing sentiment of the class is without doubt strongly against the use of such methods among Harvard men. We urge that the few offenders be made to feel the force of this public opinion, by the absolute refusal of every self-respecting member of the class, to be even remotely connected with any arrangements that are not perfectly open and honorable.

A certain amount of consultation and combination may fairly be entered into in order that the choice of officers may be made intelligently and not at haphazard, as is likely to be the case when the members of the class have hardly had time to become acquainted with each other. But anything of the nature of demagoguism should not be tolerated for an instant. That it is not tolerated in the College at large is a lesson which it will not take long for any one at Harvard to learn.