Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resignation, though not entirely unexpected, opens up the forthcoming election for Council President. It had been assumed that Oliver would run again, and he had strong support within the Council. To date, no one has announced his candidacy, but this latest development will probably increase the number of hats in the ring...
...Russians constitute half of a 24-man delegation touring the United States for a month under an exchange agreement between the Soviet Youth Organization and the Council on Student Travel. They arrived in New York yesterday and will visit Philadelphia and Washington before returning to New York late next month...
Third, Harvard objectors have complained about the quality of the University's NSA delegates. A better electoral procedure here would remedy faults in this situation. If a committee composed of representatives of the Student Council and various organizations (such as exists for the Combined Charities Drive) sought out and nominated capable and interested representatives, Harvard could obtain a highly qualified delegation...
...Student Council acted wisely in sending the report on NDEA back to a committee. As originally presented, it never came near the excellent level of previous Council reports, being intemperate in language and exaggerated in scope. Such statements as, "Every student who signs the affidavit in effect forfeits the liberty of thought and expression guaranteed in the Bill of Rights... Should the slightest revolutionary idea enter his head, he commits a felony under the law," led one member of the Council to term the report "immaturely worded, overstated, and superficial...
...education. In emphasizing that attaching "ideological strings" was a tendency of governmental aid, and recommending that that all federal aid should be held suspect, the report exceeded its mandate to report on the NDEA an delivered a thinly veiled attack on the concept of federal aid to education. The Council was right to order the new committee to "tone it down...