Word: leland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council has asked the Dean's office to establish a fund which would pay all Council expenses, Marc E. Leland '59, President of the Council, disclosed yesterday. A trust amounting to between $60,000 and $80,000 would be necessary to yield an annual income covering the Council budget, which averages $3,000 to $4,000 a year...
After the motion was defeated, the chair ruled further discussion on NSA out of order. Leland explained that anyone who wanted to could discuss the matter at the Councils open agenda meeting...
...longer would they be obliged to undertake the annual pilgrimage to the nation's capital to meet formally and informally with students from colleges throughout the country. Harvard's problems, Marc Leland, President of the Council, explained, are of a "different" nature from those on other college campuses...
...When Leland, along with Tim Zagat, the other Council delegate to the NSA convention, submitted a report on the conference to the Student Council, they listed three major criticisms of the organization: 1.) the representatives do not represent the views of their student bodies and are therefore not qualified to vote on their behalf on national or political issues; 2.) the resolutions passed by delegates were generally devoid of substance and fact; and 3.) the problems presented are not those with which the Harvard community is concerned...
...last point is the crucial one, for, as Leland argued, "The NSA never got around to discussing the problems of Harvard College." The Council after hearing three hours of debate, decided eleven to four to agree with Leland that there was "little value" in remaining members of the student association...