Word: needless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...form and guide undergraduate opinion. It is hoped that questions may be referred from the Faculty or from the Student Council. Fourth, the council will endeavor to keep in close touch with the club situation in the University, to encourage the clubs in their individual work, to prevent needless duplication, and if necessary to decide disputes as to jurisdiction. Finally, the council will issue a pamphlet giving a general detailed account of its work which will be available to all members of the University...
...CRIMSON can heartily recommend as a step towards the simplification of club engagements, and the creation of a forum for the open discussion of College questions. When twenty Harvard clubs already exist, all of which are interested in civic work or public speaking, it is evident that conflicts and needless reduplication will occur. The proposed Council will co-ordinate club meetings and will establish and maintain a long-needed public forum. Further useful functions will no doubt develop. The CRIMSON welcomes the Council as an excellent beginning...
...seem that an undergraduate who prefers to spend a year of his college course in needless study merely for the sake of "making" a certain team, or of playing an extra year on a team of which he is already a member, sets a low value on his time. It is rather an indication of the high value that is put on athletic honors-an exaggerated value, perhaps, but one that finds general acceptance...