The Committee of Arrangements for the Class Elections have drawn up the following rules for the government of the meeting :
1. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 22, at 7 P. M., In Boylston hall.
2. The Committee have unanimously chosen Mr. W. A. Halbert as chairman, and Mr. E. T. Sanford as clerk of the meeting.
3, All members of the class, past and present, who are candidates for the degree of A. B. in 1885, will be allowed to vote, and will be eligible to office.
4. Every officer is to be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the blackboard by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited.
5. All voting shall be secret, checklists being used. The class shall vote in eight sections at eight separate polls. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes, cast on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected.
6. The first ballot for every officer shall be informal. After the second ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes shall be dropped after each successive vote.
7. The class officers shall be elected in the following order : Secretary, First Marshal, Second Marshal, Third Marshal, Orator, Poet, Odist, Lay Orator, Chorister, Class Day Committee, Class Committee. The committee have appointed tellers, whose names will be published before the meeting.
In conclusion. the committee beg every man in Eighty-Five to remember that the officers elected, however contrary to his own wishes, will represent the desire of the majority of the class ; and that therefore, it is only gentlemanly to acquiesce in the result of the elections with the best possible grace, and do everything in his power to make the Class Day of Eigty-Five a pleasant and successful one.
J. E. THAYER, Chairman.G. F. DAVIDSON, Secretary.J. J. COLONY.A. T. FRENCH.E. T. SANFORD.
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