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Most of the privately endowed colleges in the East had a maid service until just before the war, when the general trend was to abolish the service in favor of having each student make his own bed and getting the janitor to clean the room daily and vacuuming one a week...
...nominate men whom they consider suitable and who have not filed previous petitions. This system replaces the method of nomination by open house meetings. Last spring the irregularities and unreliability of this method brought a storm of protest from the student body and helped start an unsuccessful crusade to abolish the council...
INITIATIVE: Under the last constitution it was the council's duty "to hold a referendum in exceptional cases, where widespread feeling demands, or when a petition signed by 200 students requests it, on any proposal concerned with student affairs," Meeting on October 29, the council decided to abolish the students' right to the initiative because it feared that any "crackpot" proposal could muster 200 signatures and that it would be swarmed under with unreasonable requests for referenda. It argued that the council was theoretically a responsible group and could exercise "common sense" on matters of public debate. This point...
...theory that they were not physically fit for general military service. This was a waste of valuable manpower, argued Colonel Warner Bowers, chief surgical consultant for the Army, last week. Most 4-Fs could have been used for less strenuous service behind the lines. His recommendation: abolish the 4-F category, classify such men for special limited duty, defer them until they are needed...
...Student Council tonight will consider a plan which would abolish single holidays throughout the academic year in order to lengthen Christmas or spring vacations. This issue, discussed earlier in the fall, returns to the group's agenda after consideration by Neale Bringhurst '51, National Student Association representative, and Louis B. McCagg '52, chairman of the Student Affairs Committee...