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After two evenings of wrangling, the Student Council voted Monday to grant a charter to the Sphinx Club, a new final club. The tortuous route which the Sphinx Club's charter application travelled indicates that a fundamental misconception of the chartering process has arisen in the minds of many Council members...
...chief stumbling block which the Sphinx Club faced was that a majority of the Council has serious doubts as to the merit of the club system, and, in particular, the merit of the final club as an institution at Harvard College. Some Council members who disliked the club system felt that they could not vote to give the Sphinx Club a charter because such a vote would constitute endorsement of the club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs...
Because of these doubts about the club system, the resolution chartering the Sphinx Club contained a proviso stating that the charter did not constitute Council endorsement of the club system. The measure chartering the Sphinx Club was also closely linked to a resolution urging next year's Council to investigate the club system...
Chartering a club under such rules would be simple. A club would submit a request for a charter, along with the proof that it fulfilled the three requirements, to the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities. The Committee would then refer the application to the Student Council. The Council would then check to see that the three provisions were in fact lived up to, and, basing its report entirely on the criteria of the three required provisions, would make a recommendation to the Committee. The Committee would make sure to its own satisfaction whether or not the three criteria were indeed...
Woodworth then disappeared and a few minutes later came back with about 50 members of the Glee Club, who sang some numbers from their regular repertory. Among them was a Bacehauale by Cocehi which they have revived. If I am not mistaken, the song is having some popularity today in Italy with the words, "Forward the Red Brigade...