Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is the small group of students who either by election as representatives of a class or a House, or by election to office within their own activity, take on a new status, not only as student qua student, but also as student qua leader. The member of Student Council, the president of the Lampoon, the president of the Young Republican Club can no longer regard his extracurricular activity as merely extracurricular. It is a part of his curriculum, and it affects his standing in the community and his regard for himself. In his tutorial group he may flounder about...
...leader of an activity is also as much a representative as is the Marshal or the Student Council member, though the sphere of his representation may be smaller. The head of a political club is as involved in representing the member of his activity as the Council member is in representing the student body...
From abnegation of responsibility it is but a small step to abnegation of moral standards. A Council treasurer absconds with the funds; athletes gang up on town youths and beat them up; a candidate for office buys votes from a neighboring school. With the former "representative" now interested only in himself (and athletes are a curiously unique kind of representative) and with no one to answer to but himself, many sorts of actions are possible...
...practical matters of Marshal and Council elections are but a mechanical byroad of a major problem raised by the inability of Harvard undergraduates to choose someone to represent them. The consequences of this situation involve the whole relation between academics and extracurricular activity, between students qua students and students qua leaders and even between the Faculty and the student body...
...fear of paternalism sometimes extends in the perverse direction of keeping hands off one group by exerting control over another. The Young Republican vote-buying of two years ago was seized upon by the Student Council as a way of making its power felt in the land, but before it could take any action, the Administration stepped in, refused to authorize the Council to take the action it wished, and took no action itself against the HYRC...