Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuum of probes and counter-probes which wiseacres call the Student Council's claim to infamy, there emerge at intervals contributions of genuine value representing exceptional thought and thoroughgoing work. Such is the Report of the Special Committee on Class Affairs. Although it will not come up for the Council's official adoption until Monday's scheduled meeting or a possible special session later in the week, the 1948 Nominating Committee has chosen to follow the Report's recommendations in every phase of its proceedings to date. The 30-page content comprises the informed opinion of battle-scarred veterans...
Vice-President Reynolds is criticized heavily in the Committee report. In connection with the Class Album, termed "one of the cornerstones of class unity," the withholding of the purveyor list, cause of a mid-summer storm, is condemned as inconsistent with "ethics." Reynolds refused to give Album advertising men a list of purveyors to the University, but "stated that he thought other sources of finding out University purveyors could be tapped...
Asserting that "the economic argument for the release of the purveyor list can be neither ignored nor denied," the report "finds it hard to square Vice-President Reynolds' position with his 'ethical' objections," and asks for a loan from the College as a temporary arrangement during the present inflationary period. Finally, the Committee recommends that the classes of '49 and '50 move to set up Album boards immediately...
Streamlining of the Class Day program is the third major feature of the report. Citing Class Day Week as an institution which "will contribute much towards kindling a warm college loyalty in the minds of the alumni of the future," the committee calls for absorption of the cost of Class Day by the College
Theatrical productions, if one accepts the opinion of Harvard's Corporation in 1762, are injurious and corrupting to the student. The mere act of attending a play, said a Corporation Report of November 19 of that year, not only "takes students' minds off from their studies," but also may lead to improper personal associations, which often "prove embarrassing to themselves, cause financial difficulties for their parents, and tend upon other disorders." The Corporation thereupon voted to make illegal participation in, or attendance at, any sort of theatrical entertainment by students in Harvard College. This rule represents the basic philosophy that...