Word: bowditch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief among the sections adopted was the preamble, which recognized the principle brought out in the Ballantine-Bowditch proposals, namely that the Council does not have direct jurisdiction over individual students, a power given in the old document...
Following the dispute aroused by the Ballantine-Bowditch proposals, first to abolish the Student Council and second, as a compromise to cut down its present size, a new, shiny, revised constitution will be proposed at a regular meeting of the Council in University Hall this evening...
Outworn powers pointed out by the Ballantine-Bowditch resolutions, such as that allowing the Council to keep a record of grades, cuts, absences, etc., of students to control the conduct of other student organizations, and to have control over individual students, have been omitted...
...committee discussing the changes was composed of Quinn, Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, Le Moyne White '36, Robert C. Hall '36, C. Colmery Gibson '37, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, Ballantine, and Bowditch...
...unwelcome spotlight of criticism turned on the Student Council last month by Ballantine and Bowditch has born fruit in the new constitution to be submitted to that body tonight. The most encouraging sign of a chastened Council is the abandonment of many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before...