In the Senior Year, nominations for class officers will be made in the usual way--by a nominating committee of five members appointed by the president of the class. Additional nominations may be made by petition of 25 members of the class. The regular system of voting will be used in the Senior class elections.

The most radical change, then, made by this new constitution is in the system of election during the Sophomore and Junior years. The systems advocated for the Freshman and Senior years have been tried and seem to have proved satisfactory.

The change in the method of election during Sophomore and Junior years has been made in the hope that the new system of nomination solely by petition may obviate the unfortunate class feeling sometimes caused by the old system of nomination by a committee. Under this old system, the leading men in the class were usually elected to the nominating committee, usually nominated themselves for the class officers, and usually were elected. This often gave rise to a more or less exaggerated feeling on the part of certain members of the class that "machine politics" had been introduced into college elections. This feeling sometimes resulted in bitterness among various "groups" in the class. The fact that additional nominations might have been made by petition seems to have been of little help in solving these difficulties.

It is hoped, however, that the new system of nomination solely by petition and election by preferential voting will in some measure remedy the trouble. Any man may be nominated for any office, and, if he is the candidate most favored by the class, will be elected. No preference will be given to the "regular" as opposed to the "petition" candidate, inasmuch as every candidate will be nominated by petition. After an election is over no man will have the right to feel that he was "unrepresented" among the nominees or that a certain body of men "controlled" the election. Under this system it is believed a fairer representation and a more genuine class unity will result.

The complete text of the constitution, as adopted last night by the representatives of the four classes on the Student Council will be published in Saturday's CRIMSON.  J. GORDON GILKEY '12.

Chairman of Committee on Scholarship and Publications