1. The meeting will be held this evening at seven o'clock in Upper Massachusetts.
2. The committee have chosen F. A. Burlingame chairman, and W. B. Parker clerk of the meeting.
3. Nobody whose name is not on the final list posted in University and Memorial Hall this morning shall be allowed to vote or be eligible to office. This list is composed of all candidates for the degree of A. B., B. S., or C. E., in the year 1897, including those who are not at present in the class, but have a fair chance of making up courses enough to obtain their degrees with the class.
4. No man shall be eligible for election to more than one office.
5. Each office shall be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, and votes cast for persons not so nominated shall not be counted. No motion to close the nominations shall be in order until a fair chance has been given to each voter to make his nomination.
6. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited.
7. All voting shall be secret, check lists being used. No ballots shall be allowed except those furnished by the committee. The class shall vote in sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes cast on a ballot he shall be declared elected.
8. After the first ballot all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot. If there are but three candidates, no one of them shall be dropped until after the second ballot.
9. No one except the committee and the tellers shall be allowed around the chairman's desk.
10. The Class officers shall be elected in the following order: Secretary, first marshal, second marshal, third marshal, orator, poet, odist, ivy orator, chorister, class day committee, class committee, photographic committee.
11. No rule shall be suspended if twenty men object.
The committee have divided the class into the following sections:
1. G. W. Abele to H. A. Butler (inclusive).
2. W. Byrd to M. S. Duffield (inclusive.
3. E. DuPont to L. S. Hapgood (inclusive).
4. C. A. Hardy to H. LeDaum (inclusive).
5. O. G. Lentz to A. A. Morton (inclusive).
6. E. E. Moses to G. S. Prouty (inclusive).
7. R. Ranlet to W. Segerblom (inclusive).
8. H. Selfridge to D. Sullivan (inclusive).
9. J. A. Sullivan to E. A. Zauetti (inclusive).
The tellers for the sections are:
1. A. W. Blakemore and C. N. Bliss, Jr.
2. W. R. Brinckerhoff and E. W. Capen.
3. I. Bowditch and E. Hollister.
4. C. D. Drew and H. B. Huntington.
5. S. Kennedy and H. B. Porter.
6. J. D. Phillips and G. N. Roberts.
7. H. W. Sides and E. Southard.
8. D. F. Murphy and C. F. Prescott.
9. M. E. Stone and W. D. Walker.
The above tellers will please report in Upper Massachusetts at 6.30 sharp.
Only those who are eligible to vote shall be allowed in the hall.
During the voting every man must remain seated in his section.
Particular attention is called to the rule forbidding any but the committee and tellers to gather around the chairman's desk. Conformation to all the regulations is earnestly requested.
F. A. BURLINGAME, L. O. O'BRIEN, W. H. VINCENT. Committee.
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