Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Eliot Morison '07, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, will expound. "The History of Harvard" at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D as the first in a series of Student Council sponsored meetings...
Here is a situation where crying over spilt shekels might pay dividends in the future. Last year, more than $2,000 was spent for printing and related expenses by the Council and its subsidiary organizations such as class committees, dance committees, and the Combined Charities Committee. Hundreds of these dollars could have been saved had the Council given as many printing jobs as possible to one printing firm. As it was, different Council committees had their printing done by more than a dozen different shops often without trying to find the least expensive printer; frequently without obtaining previous authorization...
...elimination of this sort of financial carelessness lies in the establishment of a central purchasing policy. Under such a policy, no member of the Council or a related committee would be permitted to buy anything without first getting the approval of a Councilman in charge of spending. This "business manager" would be acquainted with comparative rates of printers and other businessmen and would be in a position to drive a much better bargain for the Council than the inadequately informed committeemen who have dealt with such matters in the past...
Lack of financial foresight by some members of the 1948-49 Council has created a serious situation as a new Council starts its year. Attention to economy moves like these suggested above can help this new Council to get back on more solid ground and to stay there in the future...
...class yearbook, "314," replaces the old-fashioned Class Album. The move was authorized last year by the Student Council in an effort to cut its losses in supporting the perennially money-losing Albums. At the same time the Council shifted control of the Freshman Register to the same group, and completely junked the Freshman Red Book...