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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor teaching, due to the pressure of research, and of one-sided distribution of funds to departments. The investigation last fall into the collection for a Spanish ambulance taught the Council that it should supervise more carefully appeals to undergraduates for money. In connection with the question of student funds, it is to be noted that the Council has set up a new policy of concentrating its charity at home. Thus, while $300 less was given to local charities, $600 more was added for scholarships, which meant that twice as many were awarded. In addition, the Council helped to make...
...deduced that certain parts of these may need to be abolished. This brings us to its general attitude. Certainly, the Council has no swords to draw with University Hall, for Dean Hanford has been the acme of cooperation. Certainly, also, because of Harvard's Jaissez-faire attitude toward the student, it would be a mistake for the Council to attempt to discipline his private affairs. Harvard is too much a place for individualized learning to favor such practical training in citizenship as the ideal student council is supposed to afford. For students in those colleges which impose strict regulations upon...
...beginning of the Academic year, the Student Council of 1937-1938 found itself with certain investigations already under way, or promised to the students. As a matter of policy, I question the advisability of making commitments from one year to the next. . . . The Student Council of any year should be entirely free to turn its energies to problems which are the most pressing in its own estimation. This opinion is also held by Mr. Bowditch...
...Council has been urged by various outside organizations during the year to take a more active administrative part in the actual government of the students; presumably it is hoped that the Council would assume the power of disciplining students in all questions unconnected with scholastic aptitude. In my opinion it would be unwise for the Council to attempt to gain such powers. The restrictions on the private lives of the students at Harvard are kept to the very minimum, and if the University is willing to handle the details of punishing offenders, the Council should rather be grateful than resentful...
Citing the increased membership, especially in the Freshman class, Robert E. Lane '39, president of the H. S. U., pointed out the progress of the Student Union and its accomplishments during the year...