Rules governing the election of class day officers from Eighty-six.

1. The meeting shall be held on Tuesday evening, Oct. 20th, in Boylston Hall at 7 p.m.

2. The committee have chosen Mr. J. M. Merriam as chairman, and Mr. James A. Frye 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 1886 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 black-board 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, 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.

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 each successive ballot shall be dropped after that ballot.

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

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

The sections are:

1. E. V. Abbott to Bigelow.

2. R. W. Black to H. T. Chase.

3. S. Chase to J. C. Faulkner.

4. I. W. Fay to E. E. Hamlin.

5. S. L. Harding to E. B. Jennings.

6. S. C. Jones to F. B. Mallory.

7. A. G. Mason to G. N. Perkins.

8. L. J. Phelps to G. Santayana.

9. A. T. Scholle to P. H. Taylor.

10. C. M. Thompson to E. C. Wright.

The tellers are:

1. T. T. Baldwin, E. H. Babbitt.

2. C. A. Brown, W. C. Boyden.

3. A. D. Claflin, A. Faulkner.

4. T. H. Gage, E. E. Hamlin.

5. L. L. Hight, G. P. F. Hobson.

6. H. LaMonte, A. H. Lloyd.

7. A. G. Mason, E. H. Nichols.

8. O. B. Roberts, S. D. Richardson.

9. R. D. Smith, W. H. Slocum.

10. C. M. Thompson, F. H. Underwood.

???Com. W. S. BARNERS, Chairman.

J. M. MERRIAM, Clerk.

A. H. VOGEL.

C. M. THOMPSON.

R. F. ROGERS.