Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counter-proposals which were extensively debated were for a Class smoker, and for no Class social event, in spite of the provisions of the Paul Report, which require at least one a year for class unification. The reason given for the latter proposal was that the Council could not afford to underwrite a possible losing dance or smoker...
...took the Student Council three and one half hours of wrangling, 11 motions, and frequent consultation of Roberts' Rules to table a proposal for a Class of 1950 dance last night...
...proposal was defeated earlier in the evening, but when it came up for second vote it was given a simple majority. Since Council rules require a two-thirds majority, it was left for final settlement until next Monday...
...Student Council Committee on Education deserves credit for its latest report, which is in the spirit of the important Council reports of the thirties. Through such carefully prepared reports on education and life at Harvard the Council has made great contributions to the College. The reputation it acquired for these reports has not been wholly wrecked by its increasing political activity, and the present report will probably bolster up many people's flagging faith in the Council...
...gather that the report, fearing the impersonality of an education solely dependent on formal courses, objects to the decline of tutorial. This same objection was made a couple of years ago by another Council committee. Unfortunately, the fate of tutorial seems to be pretty well settled in the minds of the people who count. There is hardly any possibility tutorial will be revived. Many members of the faculty and administration, however, are aware that the lapse of tutorial leaves a discouraging void, and are receptive to practical suggestions for filling the void...