Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, David Peterson '59 feels his club would support the Student Council's action of withdrawal from the NSA, although it has not voted on the issue...
Charles Weiss, Jr. '59, Secretary of the HLU, suggested yesterday that the undergraduate political organizations co-operate to send representatives to the NSA, if the Student Council were not interested in sending delegates. He said that, although the NSA is "far from satisfactory in its present form," an active Harvard delegation could change this...
...Bruce Larkin, NSA International Vice President has said, that too many colleges take a "What me worry?" attitude toward the association. Certainly there are schools which take an active part in the organization and derive benefits from that participation. The question seems to lie with the "different and peculiar problems of the Harvard community:" specifically, whether these problems exist, and, if they do, whether membership in the NSA can help to solve them...
...difficulty may be that NSA attempts too much, as the Council has argued, and that its resolutions (there were over a hundred presented at the convention) should be limited to a few issues relevant to students. But the main criticism has been that the organization just hasn't done enough to warrant our continued membership...
Perhaps the proposed "Ivy League" seminar--and other meetings of schools with common problems--can be of more value than NSA has been. But, even with an improved NSA or with any of the alternatives to NSA, the question remains whether any intercollegiate organization can prove genuinely worthwhile so far as Harvard is concerned...