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Rules Governing the Election of Class-Day Officers from eighty-nine.

1. The meeting shall be held this evening, October 11th, at 7 p. m. in Upper Massachusetts.

2. The committee have chosen Mr. C. M. Thayer as chairman and Mr. J. H. Ropes as clerk of the meeting.

3. All members of the class, past and present, who are candidates for the degree of A. B., S. B., or C. E., in 1889, shall be allowed to vote and shall be eligible to office.

4. Every office shall 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 is unconditionally prohibited.

5. All voting shall be shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. 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.

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6. The first ballot for each office shall be informal. After the first formal ballot, all but the four candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be dropped, and the candidate receiving the smallest number of votes at each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot.

7. The class officers shall be elected in the following order: Secretary, first marshal, second marshal, third marshal, orator, poet, oddest, ivy orator, chorister, class-day committee, class committee.

8. No rule shall be suspended if twenty men object.

The committee have divided the class into the following sections, and have appointed the following men to serve as tellers:

The sections are:

1. Albee to Brooks, inclusive.

2. Bullard to Crowl.

3. Curran to Faxon.

4. Frank to Hebard.

5. Henshaw to Joline.

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