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Nominations Made for Six Senior Offices 1939 Album Committee; Vote March 1, 2

Treasurer, Class Committees, Are to Be Chosen at Second Election

This first election will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1 and 2, and polling places will be located in the Yard classrooms, the House dining halls and Dudley Hall.

Candidates may be added to the list published today by a petition signed by 25 members of the Senior Class. Such petitions should be handed in to Dunster K-22 before 5 o'clock on Thursday, February 24th. Any additional nominations that may be made by petition will be listed in the CRIMSON on Friday morning.

The following Monday, February 28, an "election insert" will be published by the CRIMSON giving pictures and biographies of the nominees, and this insert will be posted at each polling place.

Nathaniel G. Benchley heads the Committee of Seniors making the nominations, and the other members of the committee are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burbank, Joseph Franklin, Elliott B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman, and Robert T. Whitman.

At the Second Senior Election, to be held on March 15 and 16, the Secretary, Class Day Committee and Permanent Class Committee are elected. The Ivy Orator will be selected by the three Marshals and the Class Day Committee.

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The class constitution will also be up for ratification at the first election. It reads:

ARTICLE I

"The officers of the Harvard class of 1938, after commencement, shall be a Secretary and a Treasurer. There shall also be a class committee of eight members including the Secretary and the Treasurer ex officio.

ARTICLE II

"The duties of the Secretary and the Treasurer shall be those customarily performed by such officers and such other duties as may be assigned to them by the class committee. They shall be regular members of the class committee with full voting power.

ARTICLE III

"The class committee shall have powers and duties as follows: to determine as to the reunions of the class and the conduct thereof, to appoint subcommittees from their own number or from other members of the class: to fill all vacancies in the offices of Secretary and Treasurer and in their own elective positions; to remove any class officers or any of their own members; to conduct all elections to fill vacancies in their own number and determine within the limits herein prescribed the procedure for conducting such elections; to fix rules for the conduct of their own meetings and determine the number necessary for a quorum thereat; in all other matters concerning the class and its affairs not specifically mentioned herein, to determine what action shall be taken and to act on behalf of the class.

ARTICLE IV

"The offices of Secretary and Treasurer shall be respectively filled by the secretary and treasurer elected at the regular Senior class elections. The Secretary and Treasurer shall if possible be residents of Boston or vicinity.

ARTICLE V

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