THE NO-DEAL AGREEMENT

The action of the College authorities and the fraternity members in bringing about a season open to severe logical criticism with the idea that honesty is the one essential, and that it were better to have no agreements than to have broken ones, has more or less bearing upon the much discussed no-deal agreement in class elections. As the matter now stands, all the classes have on their records a regulation against election by deals between different social units or groups of individuals. There is at the same time throughout the College a profound conviction that no class has ever been led to anything approaching observance of this rule, and at times the conduct of elections has led to general undergraduate scandal.

Agitation for reform in class elections takes two forms. Those who believe that the no-deal agreement is capable of enforcement urge a stricter attitude, of Palaeopitus and the classes against offenders. Others assert that the agreement can never be enforced ; that the classes do not want it enforced, and that by remaining upon the class books it adds dishonor and dishonesty to whatever intrinsic wrong there is in dealing.