The election of Senior officers is one of the most important events in the history of a class. It is important not only because it is the final undergraduate honor that a class can bestow, but because the voters are aware that the officers they now choose will be permanent, and will be the leaders at all the class reunions. They realize that the world will judge the class of 1920 largely by the men it selects for the important offices; that their choice is taken to represent the best which the class can produce.

Service to the University is the criterion by which the election should be guided. Service, of course, can take many forms, but is always the greatest devotion to the ideals for which Harvard stands. The officers should be chosen not because of what they have done, but the way they have done it; not solely for the number of prominent positions won, but for the qualities of leadership and character which have won them and which go to make the men fit representatives of the class now and a half a century from now.

There must be no weak spots in the group of officers. Class spirit and attachment to Harvard grow with every year. With the realization that these men will be the ones to hold the class together as an active unit, all personal favoritism should be laid aside in electing the final representatives of the Senior Class.