Word: students
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Third, Harvard objectors have complained about the quality of the University's NSA delegates. A better electoral procedure here would remedy faults in this situation. If a committee composed of representatives of the Student Council and various organizations (such as exists for the Combined Charities Drive) sought out and nominated capable and interested representatives, Harvard could obtain a highly qualified delegation...
...only are the disadvantages of NSA membership being lessened, the potential benefits make joining eminently worthwhile. The NSA serves valuable functions domestically and abroad. On the national scene the Student Association is active in bringing issues of academic freedom (such as NDEA) and federal aid to education into the awareness of students and key governmental officials alike...
...international scene NSA provides scholarships through the World University Service for student leaders from other countries and organizes exchange visits. Perhaps even more significant than these activities is the role NSA assumes in the International Student Conference (ISC). The future leaders of especially the underdeveloped nations are often active in their student associations, and these associations are often active in politics. NSA has a unique chance to communicate with these students and through its resolutions of policy demonstrate that Americans are aware of their problems and sympathetic to their aspirations...
From the point of view of Harvard itself, membership in NSA offers a valuable opportunity for University students interested in world student problems to channel their efforts through NSA and the ISC--a chance that would be lost if Harvard stays...
...would be paradoxical for University students who prize academic freedom and student welfare to stay outside an organization that has such vast potential for advancing these ideals in less fortunate student communities. Whatever unattractiveness there is to Harvard students in being represented in a national association with other American students should be outweighed by the unique, and in these times momentuous, opportunities available through NSA. Harvard's influence as an eminent academic institution would both strengthen the Association and make the University's membership fruitful; students should vote to rejoin...