Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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January saw action at Reed when the student council, the faculty and the Reed unit of the AAUP urged the president and trustees to reject participation in this program as long as the disclaimer was required for participation. The trustees meeting on January 31 gave authorization to the president to act as he saw fit in the matter. Consequently, President Sullivan wired the U.S. Commissioner of Education on February 2 that Reed would not participate in the program as long as the requirement of a negative affidavit was demanded...
...Student Council last night unanimously approved a plan to establish a 30-man permanent committee on educational policy. Based on the assumption that the student body is "the largest unused poll of creativity and intelligence in the Harvard Community" the new plan envisions a representative body of students that would work closely with the Administration and discuss "basic problems of educational philosophy" in the College...
...action last night, the Council merely endorsed the general idea of such a committee. Further details were left to be worked out by an exploratory group led by President Edward L. Croman...
...Should everyone be immunized against lockjaw? Yes, answers Immunologist Dr. Geoffrey Edsall of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a report to the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Only 25% of the population has been immunized, yet the tetanus bacillus is present in many open wounds; thus the disease is a clear threat (an average 325 deaths a year) to anyone. The tetanus immunization shot, says Dr. Edsall, is not only one of the safest toxoids known to man, it is also among the most effective: the U.S. Army's tetanus rate...
...finished town hall is full of Aalto signature details, from the homey touch of grass growing on the informal stairway entry to the dramatic cantilever of the council hall, within which is the visitors' balcony overlooking the town council chamber. Wood, which the Finns call "green gold," is used exuberantly in the playful trusses in the roof and with caressing respect in the solid red pine furniture specially designed by Aalto for the interiors. Aalto can also be intensely practical, as he is in his design for the Lutheran Church at Vuoksenniska, finished earlier this year. Knowing the problems...