Word: representations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard participants will represent both France and the United States; Dartmouth, Russia; Yale, both East and West Germany; and M.I.T., Britain, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia. The teams will deal with the world situation as it exists at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon.
Marc E. Leland '59, and Edward C. Pinkus '59 will represent the Debate Council tonight in a debate with the Boston Socialist Club on the topic, "Resolved: That socialism is the only cure for our ills."
The 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...
Thus arises the paradox of the representative becoming divorced from the group he is supposed to represent. Even as a leader in his activity, the student-leader represents the members of his club only while they are in the club building; once out of it, the two groups are again...
It takes a while, however, for the student-leader to note that no matter how hard he may be working to represent his fellows, no one really considers him his representative. The feeling that no one appreciates what he is doing (and this applies as well to the club officer...