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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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eleoti ns for piv id QI ha b been held with only on* candidate in the held a 1 barel enough prose , 3ti tut© a quorum, ili < latter iiein pi a I at the ridioulou low number t \ >nt . li I r eon time pa f the athleti mana ;ershipa and position* on the the Athletic Board ha i begging. Only the mild< t att ntioii is I »wed up D th mi i].j>]i xtion of funds. Within I ipai lively nt titnee three under iduate publi< itions hav been grossly miamanag and the le criticism i -ted « sun dry facetious intimations of ".rait h supii indifference is scarcely calcul 1 to best conserve the interests of the stud nt 1 If we seek the can • of th - disheartening conditions we may find that it perhaps lies to some extent in the fact that in our coll ge elections no real issues are ever pre nt" 1. It is the . cceptional case where, in an election, any inn >rtant questions of policy are involved. Ti: tud nt polic) s generally the same and c ll< \ ,liti. ,1 i mpaigns are not based upon any very dolinit platt rms of principles. It is one of the fundamentals < i democracy, and a college cummunity should be the ra< t perfect of democracies, that candidal a are elect. I to office upon two considerations; first, the *\ >wd policy of the candidate if elected, and E nd, his ability to put such a policy into operation it 1minister the ailairs of the office with a |>, gree of efficiency and success. I n c u r own elections the first element is altogether lacking and the second ie in variably ] teigl of. rhe issue then merely becomes one of, „,al »ty and the successful candidate is elect d b I f his personal popularity rather than upon eithe the two grounds just mentioned upon winch all i„ a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^a^aH l4o
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