Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's vast empire is nominally governed by an imposing hierarchy ranging from the humble Student Council, through the Faculty Council, Visiting Committees, and Corporation, up to the Board of Overseers, final arbiters of Harvards' destiny...
Until the Student Council was found- ed in 1908, the undergraduate body had no formal machinery for voicing its opinions. As the initiator of many reforms in the College community, it has lately felt a need for a better way of impressing undergraduate opinion on the Administration...
...heels of widespread student protest against the dismissal in 1937 of two young Economics instructors, Alan R. Sweezy '29 and J. Raymond Walsh, the Council recommended that student committees be formed in each department to consult with Faculty members of that department on proposed appointments and dismissals...
...Administration, however, did not answer the petitions. Even a Student Council resolution urging Feild's reappointment brought no word from the President's offices in University Hall. Today Harvard undergraduates are as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against horse-meat in Commons
There are many ways in which an incoming Freshman can earn at least part of his expenses at Harvard, according to the Student Employment Office which is in charge of distributing jobs to those who need them...