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The Executive Committee of the Alumni Association decided to make a change in the method of nominating overseers at its last meeting on January 9. The vote states that this committee shall not suggest as candidate for election a person whose six-year term of office as overseer shall have expired within one year of such election.
The effect of this new ruling will be to put an end to the present custom of re-electing every overseer after the expiration of his first term of office for another six years as a matter of course, and without regard to the manner in which he performed his duties. It was thought necessary by the committee to stop this custom in order not to have negligent and incompetent men on the Board of Overseers for so long as twelve years. If, however, a man has proved himself worthy in his first term as overseer, the committee will of course suggest his re-election after the required year following his first term has passed, and he may subsequently be elected for life as heretofore.
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