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However, after reading the section on the state of the English problem today it seems that the proposals of the first part were made for some other country. Perhaps this part is best kept the furthest away from any Congressman's sight. In three sub sections there are three notions of a proper unifying concept. Stress is placed successively on language, literature and then composition. There is also a head-in-the-sand-type request for a 1 to 25 student-teacher ratio in teaching composition. After a fine beginning there is this general lack of enthusiasm, focus...
...hundred days" is taken seriously, the new term will bring not an effective effort by Council members to exert its persuasive powers as a pressure group but nebulous and seldom fulfilled plans for Council-sponsored extra activities. Clearly public seminars, week-long forums on international affairs, and politically involved sub-committees are beyond the realm of an efficient Student Council. The aims of such projects are a legitimate concern of a student pressure group, but the execution of these programs would best be delegated to other undergraduate organizations...
...Student Council now involves undergraduates--250 in the Combined Charities, 120 other non-members on various sub-committees--all going in any number of directions, one of them holding the same view on what the parent organization is or ought to be doing. Amid certain worthwhile endeavors and a slight but nonetheless discernible increase in student interest, the Council still fails to an identity, to define the extent of a domain. The Council has failed to arrow down the large and much too catch-all called "the purpose of the Harvard Student Council." As Howard J. Phillips '62, recently rejected...
...SCCEP also works in an unpublicized way, with all of the advantages of non-sensational, off-the-record coercion. Several students are like a former Freshman Council leader who prefers to work on sub-committees and concentrate on specific areas but who has very little desire to run for a seat on the parent organization...
...bothered to ask the important questions: why the picture of the villanious Jew has remained constant from the medieval ballads about the murder of Hugh or Lincoln to the novels of Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, why the conscious attempts to reject the stereotype have resulted in sub-literary propaganda, and why Jewish characters are now being moved from the periphery of the novel to be placed at its center...