The difficulties of getting a full and fair vote for the election of class officers, which has been the center of recent discussion over the senior elections, have given rise to a new attempt at their solution. At Amherst there has been proposed a system which, it is thought, will provide for a fair vote and will allow a full gauging of undergraduate preference both in nomination and final election.

The system is a complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise.

It is clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office.