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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council has no direct authority over the student body as a whole; self-government of this sort does not exist at Harvard. But it does administer and support financially several functions and activities of classes and organizations...
Phillips Brooks House, the social service center, is supported by a large donation from Student Council funds. About a thousand dollars in scholarship money is given to needy students who are not eligible for aid from the University...
Direct relations between the Freshman class and the Student Council are provided by a member of the Council whose job is to supervise Freshman activities. This year's Adviser on Freshman Affairs is Langdon P. Marvin '41, who was Chairman of the Union Committee, Freshman social committee, two years...
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so, "it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...
...Council exercises its office of student judge and reporter by means of reports on questions which seem significant from the undergraduate point of view...