Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Student Council Constitution, adopted last year, provides that the runner-up moves automatically into a vacated post. In this instance, however, all runners-up were either ineligible or declined the appointment, listing increased academic pressure or other extracurricular activities as their reasons for turning down the post.
A complete rearrangement of Freshman affairs is needed, with the Union as the dominant factor. Begun fairly unsuccessfully last winter, this rearrangement includes forums, dances, weekly movie nights, as well as pleasant surroundings. But last year the handicap of having two thousand Freshmen seemed too much for the officials and...
"Except to the bookish," he writes, "many of what are called the Standard Novelists have the set air of an officially appointed committee. We had fallen into the error of believing that they [wrote] for critics, for literary historians, for students or for leisured persons of academic tastes; and people...
The Brooks House tutors will attempt to further liason between their Committee and local high school teachers in order to get at the bottom of the academic troubles of their pupils.
In the event of a Council member's resignation, the Constitution calls for his replacement with the next man on the ballot. The runner-up in the Adams House election of last spring was Francis D. Fisher '47, who declined to serve last night because of "academic pressure."