Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunities available to Harvard through membership in the National Student Association outweigh any possible disadvantages. By rejoining NSA, Harvard students have the chance to advance for students everywhere the ideals and opportunities they find so precious here...
...only are the disadvantages of NSA membership being lessened, the potential benefits make joining eminently worthwhile. The NSA serves valuable functions domestically and abroad. On the national scene the Student Association is active in bringing issues of academic freedom (such as NDEA) and federal aid to education into the awareness of students and key governmental officials alike...
From the point of view of Harvard itself, membership in NSA offers a valuable opportunity for University students interested in world student problems to channel their efforts through NSA and the ISC--a chance that would be lost if Harvard stays...
...there is to Harvard students in being represented in a national association with other American students should be outweighed by the unique, and in these times momentuous, opportunities available through NSA. Harvard's influence as an eminent academic institution would both strengthen the Association and make the University's membership fruitful; students should vote to rejoin...
...judge by the apathy of students at Harvard to the whole issue of NSA membership last year, there is little such feeling among students here. Membership will not be a cure-all for that apathy, deplorable as it may be. There is no assurance that the pontifications of Harvard delegates to the NSA conferences truly represent the opinion of the student body; they must speak for themselves since apathy prevents expression of most views on the value of the Association. When the disadvantage of personal representation is weighed against the supposed advantage of membership in a non-representative group...