Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council has recently completed an investigation of the former problem as it relates to the position of Class Marshal, one of the positions Adams had in mind 50 years ago. Shaken by the uproar over the Marshal election in November, the Council has attempted to devise some revision of election procedures to make Class Marshals more "representative...
...practical matters of Marshal and Council elections are but a mechanical byroad of a major problem raised by the inability of Harvard undergraduates to choose someone to represent them. The consequences of this situation involve the whole relation between academics and extracurricular activity, between students qua students and students qua leaders and even between the Faculty and the student body...
This attitude is similar, and perhaps a result of, a third possible cause of the problem: the generally laissez-faire attitude of the Faculty and the administration. Harvard is uniquely fortunate in having an enlightened administration which believes that a part of education as important as formal instruction is the teaching of the student to plan and regulate his own life. The freedom of publications and other organizations to print and say whatever they wish and, within certain minimal boundaries, do whatever they wish is found at few other colleges. It forces upon the Harvard undergraduate a degree of maturity...
...another Faculty attitude comes to mind, which appears unrelated to the present problem, but is still relevant to administration laissez-faire and general Yard apathy. One cannot help but note certain professors who appear rather bored with their large lecture courses, and House tutors who dislike to sit with students at dinner, a growing phenomenon noted by the Council Committee on the Houses. The sight of a tutor entering a dining hall, looking about in vain for his graduate friends, and proceeding to sit alone at an empty table, is a distressing one for the student who would like...
...problems inherent in a community whose inhabitants deny the possibility of being represented cannot be solved by citing a moral maxim. Rather one might ask for an increased awareness of the problem, on the part of everyone at Harvard, and the awareness of his relationship to the Harvard community. The student is not just an independent thinker, cut off from all about him; by choosing to study at Harvard rather than with a private tutor at home, he commits himself to participation in the College community. This includes the commitment to provide for as adequate representation of students...