Freshmen Petition to Abolish Elections Schedule 22 Meetings on Concentration

A petition already signed by 75 Freshmen was being circulated through the Yard last night calling for the abolition of the Freshman elections now scheduled to be next month.

Several members of the class are heading the movement, led by Curtis Clay '41 and Charles Clark '41, and are starting to canvas the various dormitories. They report that over two-thirds of the men so far approached have signed.

The petition addressed to the Student Council, reads as follows:

"We, the Undersigned of the Harvard class of 1941 do hereby request that the Student Council abolish the election of Freshman class officers scheduled to take place in March 1938, and that it empower the present Union Committee to execute those acts formerly the duties of the elected officers."

There has been a movement in the University for some time in favor of the abolition of the elections, and the immediate cause of the present petition was the action of the Student Council last week in postponing the elections a month, thereby refusing the plan of getting rid of them entirely.