Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Emerson bucked a chorus of hisses from conservatively-minded members of the audience when he said, "I do feel that the problem is still there; the Spanish people are still fighting," but, he added "it is probably too late...
With regard to Freshman elections, however, the Council merely recommends that signatures be required on ballots, ignoring the knotty problems raised every year by the impossibility of a really democratic election in a class which is new to the college and unacquainted with itself. It has been repeatedly pointed out in these columns that the Freshman elections are essentially a farce; that the Union Committee, in spite of its un-democratic nature, is the logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made...
Recommending the construction of a new House as the only "real and permanent" solution to the problem offered by the annual overflow of undergraduates who cannot be accommodated in the Houses, the Student Council last night urged as immediate remedial measures the adoption of the Yale plan of guaranteeing Juniors and Seniors admission to the Houses, an "associate member" plan, and the provision of adequate intramural facilities for the remaining out-of-House...
...Council restricted itself to the overflow problem, and will investigate the whole question of admissions to the Houses later this year...
...principal explanation for this is the impossibility of adding anything new to the discussion. The problem has been mulled and mooted in so many annual reports, special undergraduate committee reports, and Crimson editorials that every possible solution has long since been suggested and resuggested. The Council report nevertheless remains an interesting and informative document for a variety of reasons. It stands as the most exhaustive survey of the situation to date; it changes the emphasis placed on the various solutions; and in certain respects it emphatically disagrees with Dean Hanford's conclusions in his latest annual report...