Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noting the faculty's concurrence on the sore spots of too many students and too little definition of the job required, the Teachers Union concludes its report with two proposals...
...same time this fall to demonstrate graphically the breakdown of class organization which inevitably accompanied the war. It is the lack of integration born of the war together with the deeper factors of cross-cutting inherent in the House system and steady increase in class size which the Report explicitly set out to remedy. Pointing out that the "cornerstone of the Harvard alumni organization is the class," the Report offers a blueprint intended "to bring order out of chaos" on a matter of long-range import...
...every feature the Report is sound. Reorganization of the undergraduate political structure would provide for sophomore, junior, and permanent class committees elected separately from slates composed by nominating committees, the latter to be chosen from the Houses and Union officers. "We have tried to prevent appointment to the Union Committee," the Report noted sharply, "from becoming a free ride into the marshalship." Streamlining of the Class Day program would suggest the assumption of Class Day financial burdens by the College in recognition of that institution's opportunity to "kindle a warm College loyalty in the minds of the Alumni...
...College election. Both allow a minority group to get a man into office on a small number of votes by capitalizing on the failure of the large group of voters who in any case will not indicate their preference." In light of the interlocking nature of the Report's recommendations the threatened rejection of this point of view would in effect violate the total spirit. It is to be hoped that the Council will forsake complex balloting experiments for the authoritative proposals its special committee has evolved only after the most careful consideration...
...confusion on this time question is accentuated, the report states, by the fact that the answers of the remaining 60 percent ranged from "the hours of the day minus that which is required for eating, sleeping, and traveling" to "what you can get away with if you want...