Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been taken as self-evident in the conduct of Freshman affairs that a student body, no matter how undemocratically chosen or how unrepresentative of the class as a whole, is better than no student body at all. The Union Committee, however, is not unrepresentative. Selected with great care, it covers geographical differences, has both high school and prep school members, tries to represent as many dormitories as possible...
...only alternative to appointment would be an election, but where such a large, disorganized Freshman class exists as here, there could be only one result of this proceedure. The schools sending the largest delgations to Harvard would completely dominate the election. The small school boy, no matter how capable, wouldn't have a chance...
...last two years the function of the committee has rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
...almost an unknown body, in that year a committee of the Class of '39 under the informal chairmanship of Richard P. Hedblom '39 took an active lead in class affairs, proved that the twelve men appointed really had an opportunity to lead and to initiate...
Formed after the Freshmen had been moved into the Yard, the Union Committee has turned into a training group for future class officers, for its members, no matter how undemocratic the method of their choice may be, get excellent preliminary training in student government...