BALLOTING FOR JUNIOR OFFICERS STARTS TODAY

Members of the Class of 1943 will go to the polls today and tomorrow to elect eight men from a field of 32 for the class offices. Positions to be filled are first, second, and third Marshals, Treasurer, Chorister, Orator, Odist, and Poet.

All ballots must be in by the time the Dining Halls close on Tuesday night, and the results will be announced in Wednesday's CRIMSON. Voting places have been set up in all the Houses, Dudley, Harvard and Sever Halls, the Varsity and all clubs.

Two Names Added

Two men have been added by petition to the 31 named by the Student Council nominating committee, and one name dropped. Mark Yohalem was added to the Chorister list and Charles Fenno Hoffman, Jr. to the Poet nominations. Robert Frederick Kolkebeck has asked that his name be dropped from the Treasurer's slate.

The oldest and most honored of the offices are the Marshal's positions, dating back to sometime around 1636. Three governors of Massachusetts, a Supreme Court Justice, President of the University and several Faculty members have worn the Marshal's robes.

It is the Class Odist who provides the humor at the graduation exercises, reciting his ode to the tune of Fair Harvard. T. S. Eliot '10, Horatio Alger, Jr. '52, Dean Chase '96, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, are a few of the men who have written odes in the long history of Class Day.

The Chorister leads the Class in singing Fair Harvard and the Orator and Poet deliver serious speeches. Probably the best known man to have held the Orator's post was Oliver Wendell Holmes '61.