Word: directing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Does it not seem extraordinary that the undergraduates should be expected to elect a Student Council with "direct jurisdiction over individual students" when the individual students in question have not been consulted as to whether or not they want such a body? This, however, is exactly what the scheme for a new Council proposes, inasmuch as the College is given no chance to consider or to ratify adequately the new plan. The CRIMSON believes that the formation of a new Council and its adoption is a matter important enough to justify discussion and a real ratification. The present scheme with...
...remedy this a Council of considerable size has been proposed, thus including as many as possible of the various College activities. It was necessary, however, to have a small body to direct the work of the Council and to act for the Council as a whole at all times. This has been accomplished by an Executive Committee of seven which is elected from the Council by its members. This body will be an active one, representing the Council at all times. It will meet regularly and often, and will be the body directly accessible to the officers of the University...
...bring before the governing bodies of the University expression of undergraduate opinion on subjects pertaining to the University, and to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating any evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question of individual and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties...
Since the proposed constitution reads: "The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students . . ." it can readily be seen that it is necessary that the new Council be formally adopted. It would certainly be extraordinary for a body of undergraduates to acquire "direct jurisdiction over individual students" by any means other than that of having the majority of the students confer such power...
...lecturer on Economics, and President of the American Social Science Association, James MacKaye s.'95, chemist and author, James J. Hill, capitalist, and former president of the Great Northern Railroad system, Senator R. M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, prominent in encouraging the election of United States senators by direct vote, Gifford Pinchot, head of the movement for federal conservation and ex-chairman of the Forestry Commission, Henry George, Jr., congressman and author of several works on political economy, Hutchins Hapgood '92, writer on political topics, Brand Whitlock, socialist mayor of Toledo, Ohio, Charles Edward Russell, editorial writer for the Hearst papers...