Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last few years: The Princetonian last year reflected student opinion accurately when in its annual parody number it displayed a complete blank under the heading "Activities of the Senior Council." At Harvard skepticism of the value of Student Councils has taken the form of indifference. A steadily diminishing vote for Student Council members reached its low water mark this year when little more than a third of the Junior and Sophomore classes took the trouble to fill out their ballots. The popular idea of the Student Council is that of a body which meets occasionally, talks much and to little...
...Council rounded out its membership to the requisite fifteen and today will assume its functions for the coming year. What those functions are to be, whether they are going to serve a legitimate and useful purpose in the College, or are to become more shadowy, just as the vote has become more scattered, is the most vital question confronting the newly assembled Council members...
...undergraduate organ voice the authoratative opinion of the whole undergraduate body. For the effective fulfillment of this purpose one factor is essential; the ability to act quickly and decisively. Emergencies cannot be handled if postal cards must be sent out, a meeting held, lengthy discussion indulged in and a vote cast before definite action can be taken. To perform effectively its duties as representative of the undergraduate body the Student Council thus must develop a mode of procedure or of control which will enable it to reach immediate decisions in the face of sudden difficulties...
...completion of the new two-year program for the degrees was the chief constructive work of the year. The committee on the reorganization of instruction, aided by certain subcommittees, and sanctioned by the vote of the Faculty, took up the duty of defining curricula and administrative procedures for putting the new requirements into effect...
...choice of coxswain for the 150-pound oarsmen will be between McCollum and Wadsworth and will be decided in the same way by a vote of the crew members some time this week...