FRESHMAN ELECTION.

The election of officers by a Freshman class is second only in importance to the election of permanent officers in Senior year. A class which is carefully organized and ably directed in its first year is on the high road to success and in the succeeding years will profit in full measure by a good beginning. Some years ago when the Freshman president was chosen earlier in the year it was harder to make certain of the right man unless the class was fortunate in having a man on the University football team, who had the qualities necessary for the position.

It is comparatively easy to outline the type of man who would be the ideal Freshman officer--it is hard to find him. The first president must be well known throughout the class and it is not at all surprising or undesirable that so many Freshman presidents are chosen from the class football team. Those men who have succeeded in their athletics and who have won the confidence of their classmates on the football squad are likely to be men who will make good officers. The ideal president is an organizer as well as a leader. He is a man who believes in the desirability of unity in the class, but does not believe in unnecessarily forcing class unity and class spirit doctrines on that group of men, who appear in every class, for whom these ideas have no appeal. He is one, who, by his own standard of living, will serve as an example for others, and by his personal influence will extend wholesome principles through the class.

Nor does this apply only to the president. It concerns the election of the other officers as well. These offices present splendid opportunities to the men who receive them, in giving them a chance to exert their personal influence in an official capacity. The CRIMSON trusts that 1912 will seek successfully for the best men.