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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a time when "taxation without representation" was anathema to Americans by and large and to noisy Harvard undergraduates in particular. Americans got the representation and have seen paying taxes ever since. Harvard undergraduates did not get representation until the Student Council was formed thirty years ago; and they are already beginning to welsh...
...return for running their government, supporting their welfare center, fulfilling all their obligations to local charities, providing over forty deserving students with scholarships, and defraying all expenses incurred in the interests of the student body as a whole, undergraduates last year contributed only slightly more than one dollar per capita to the Student Council...
Present indications point to an even lower contribution this year with one third of the student body making no donation whatever. Poverty is not to blame for this apathy, for there is scarcely a single undergraduate who cannot afford at least a dollar. And even students who hold themselves aloof from college obligations should remember that they have a duty as citizens and that the Council's appeal is the only plea they will receive from the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and other allied charities rendering such yeoman service in these troubled times...
Credit for last year's particularly encouraging upturn belongs jointly to a revamping of the system based on Student Council recommendations and to the active and efficient direction of Mr. Samborski. These two factors have collaborated to reduce the number of defaults, increase participation as well as the varieties of available sports. Their collaboration in the future can be confidently expected to produce a still greater vigor and mounting value to Harvard's House athletics...
...student will have to get used to that awesome word Bibliography without which intellectual effort cannot be translated into the all-important marks. And to that end William A. Jackson has come here as an Assistant Librarian (in charge of the Treasure Room and Associate Professor of Bibliography, in which subject he will give a course next year...