Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON. My opinions represent the attitudes of a member of the Student Council but to a greater extent the reactions of a Harvard student to the editorial mentioned above. The editorial chides the Student Council for resorting to a "hastily-contrived inverse technique" in order to obtain a quorum. I agree that the lack of quorum in the Student Council's meetings on several occasions suggests a substantial indifference among its members--most of which indifference can not be attributed to the agenda or to the manner in which the Student Council meetings are conducted...
...political position uncontested. The hope of an uncontested seat motivated individuals who had little interest in performing constructive services for the student community. In reference to the particular meeting which prompted the CRIMSON editorial, it is noteworthy that the members of the Students Council present called for a quorum rather than pass resolutions knowing that a quorum did not exist--this last being allowable parliamentary procedure...
This time the Student Council's hastily-contrived inverse filibuster technique succeeded. After threatening to hold frequent meetings until it could obtain a quorum--and after calling a fifteen-minute recess at the first of these meetings to place a few judicious telephone calls to absentees--the Council came through...
Because the Student Council failed to get a quorum last night, Howard J. Phillips '62, President of the Council, called a special meeting of the body for tomorrow night and said he will keep on calling meetings until those who are continually absent have been removed from membership under the absentee rule...
...call for quorum came from James DeW. Perry '63, after a motion to accept the report in toto without voting separately on each recommendation was defeated...