Word: council
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the report of John Cross '30, recently elected Assistant Treasurer of the Student Council, the accounts of last year's budget were found to be in good condition, with all the back debts paid up, and a balance of about $500 in the bank, owing, in great part, to the discontinuation of the University Register...
Three sums of $4,000 each will be taken from the grand total: the first to go to Phillips Brooks House; the second to be reserved for class funds; and the third to be used for the Student Council and organized charities. The money for the class funds will be allotted as follows: to the class of 1930, $1,600, of which $1,000 is a loan for the Senior Album, to be repaid, and $600 a fund for entertainments and general expenses. Of the remaining $2,400, $600 each will be given to the classes...
...Student Council keeps for its own overhead and running expenses $700; while the remainder of the $4,000 is for organized charities, and miscellaneous purposes. The Salvation Army is to receive $500, the American Red Cross, $1,000, and the Harvard Band, $750. The allotments for the Cambridge Boy Scouts, the Committee on Friendly Relations among Foreign Students, and the Near East Relief have not yet been decided...
...early publication of figures compiled by the Student Council Committee on the Budget marks the inauguration of a policy that has heretofore been largely overlooked either through carelessness or through failure to appreciate a responsibility toward the large body of undergraduates in whose interests such services are performed. The average student who wearily wends his way through lines of registration desks, CRIMSON and Lampoon agents, laundry or pressing solicitors, is prone to overlook the full significance of the cash contribution or pledge filled out in impatient anticipation of escaping the toils of enrolment...
...same student, who burdened in former days with the incessant demands of solicitors, however worthy their cause, brought before the Student Council his desperate case. Today, the machinery of the Budget Committee reveals itself as an elastic medium whereby the student body is relieved of its petty responsibilities and theoretically, at least, is assured of efficient capable management of its charities...