DORMITORY ELECTIONS

Popular opinion has frequently tended to undervalue the importance of the elections for Freshman dormitory committees. That this tendency can only have unfortunate results should not be difficult to demonstrate. For while it may be true that dormitory committees cannot command in the eyes of the college and the eyes of the college and the public at large the prestige held by the more pretentious councils and committees, still the dormitory committees, composed of the first elected officers of the class, have a very real opportunity to be of service to the class.

The quality of that service depends upon the quality of the men chosen in today's election. A committee made up of men selected for their energy, ability, and enterprise can be of great influence in moulding the spirit of the class. On the other hand, a committee carelessly elected, composed of dull and lazy members, will soon become a body of no mark or likelihood dedicated to the purchase of magazines and ash trays for the common room, and little more. Wherefore it behooves the members of the Class of 1929 to realize the importance of todays' elections and to ponder carefully when they mark their ballots in today's elections.