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THE SOCIETY SYSTEM.
A Suggestion that Junior and Soph-
oOmore Societies Change Places.
OCTOBER 23, 1899.
To the Editor of YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY:
Dear Sir: On the question of changing
the Yale Society System, I have a plan to
suggest which is concrete, seems to me
practical, and will make the system sym-
metrical, and one that will more certainly
secure that “survival of the fittest” at
which it aims.
I would have the Junior and Sophomore
Societies change places, ‘H. Bovdy, H. 9,
and K. ¥. becoming Junior Societies and
A. K. E.,¥. Y.,and A. A. &. becoming Sopho-
more Societies, or at least selecting their
first quota of members from the Freshman
class. This plan could be readily put in
practice as follows:
Suppose this is to be done next Spring,
in 1g00. ‘H. BovAy, H. ®., and K. ¥. would
not select their quota as usual from 1903,
the Freshman class, hut the members from
1902, active members this year, would con-
tinue as active members next year also,
making the societies at once Junior Socie-
ties, and then in the Spring of Igcr would
select their usual quotas from 1903, then
Sophomores.
On the other hand. A. K.-E.¥. Y., and
A, A. ®, would next Spring not only elect
their usual quotas from Igo2, then Sopho-
mores, but also an equal number from
1903, then Freshmen, and then in Igo!,
and thereafter would always elect their
main quota from the Freshman class as
the Sophomore Societies do now, electing
also from time to time, as they do now,
from the Sophomore, Junior and Senior
classes such few men as may be deemed
worthy of an election.
It seems to me that neither set of socie-
ties should object to this change. ‘H. Bovay,
H.®, and K.¥. should welcome it, as it
vould enhance their dignity and make
em more truly, and to better purpose,
hat they really are, and under this plan
ould rightly be, the stepping-stones to
enior Societies.
A. K.E., ¥. Y., and A. A. ®. should at least
ot object to the change. An election to
hese Societies would be much more appre-
iated than now, when the Sophomore
Society man takes it as a matter of course,
and others not as just what they would
like to have had, but as what they.can get.
The Societies would gain much in the
loyalty of their members, who in their
first year of membership would have no
divided allegiance, their influence in the
College would be much greater and their
members could get from them during the
second year and perhaps later years of
their course much more than they are
offered now, just how much depending on
the members themselves and what they
might desire to make of their Society.
This plan will give a system that can
readily be expanded now, or whenever the
growth of the College may demand it.
Very truly yours,
JAMES ARCHBALD, JR., ’87.
Pottsville, Pa.
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Junior Prom Officers.
The election for the Junior Prom-
enade Committee was held in Osborn
Hall on November 3. On the prelim-
inary ballot the following fifteen were
nominated, H: S. Curtiss, receiving 86
votes; P. L. Mitchell, 85; A. Kep-
pleman, 74; hi Oy 66° * Harold
Chappell, Bo. 3.8. Wear, 60;. 1D, JS.
Blossom, 48; L. M. Thomas, 45s: 48, LL,
Atkinson, 44; A. F. Yeixzgy, 34; Julian
Day, 25; H: -Christian,. 24, J:
Be ehon 24: W. R. Hitt, BO &
Brown, I9.
On the final ballot the following were
elected: Paul Lincoln Mitchell, Chair-
man, Cincinnati, 103; Henry Stiles
Curtiss, Cleveland, 1co: Sherman Lock-
wood Coy, Lakeville. Conn., 99; James
Hutchinson Wear. St. Louis, Mo., 04;
Leonard Moorhead Thomas, Philadel-
phia, Pa., 91; Dudley Stuart Blossom,
Cleveland, O., 89; John Arthur Kep-
pleman, Reading, Pa., 85; Robert Louis
Atkinson, St. Louis, Mo., 79; Harold
Chappell, New London, Conn.. 75.
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