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WORK OF STUDENT COUNCIL

SECRETARY'S REPORT SUMMARIZED ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROBLEMS OF 1911-12.

2. Committee on Dramatics:--R. C. Benchley '12 (chairman), J. S. Abreu '14, E. C. Brown '12, C. E. Hansen '12, O. W. Hausserman '12, H. E. Miller '12.

3. Committee on Scholarship and Publications:--J. G. Gilkey '12 (chairman), G. W. Gray '12, G. C. Henderson '12, G. H. McCaffrey '12, D. P. Ranney '12, G. H. Roosevelt '13, H. J. Smith '13, R. W. Williams '12.

4. Committee on Subsidiary Athletics:--R. T. Fisher '12, (chairman), R. B. Batchelder '13, C. P. Curtis, Jr., '14, A. M. Goodale '13, F. D. Huntington '12, R. S. Potter '12, A. Strong '12, P. R. Withington '12.

Work of Sub-Committees.

The Committee on Organizations has accomplished a great deal of valuable work: 1. It has had charge of the date-book of lectures and meetings, and of the calendar in the CRIMSON; 2. It has assisted territorial clubs in College to co-operate with their home Harvard clubs; 3. It has aided registered clubs; 4. It has established better accounting for clubs; 5. It has edited the University register. Chairman Sibley has a report which will be submitted later, taking up these things more in detail.

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The Committee on Scholarship and Publications has also accomplished an enormous amount of work and has several very important suggestions to lay before you this evening. These will likewise be discussed in detail later on by its chairman, J. G. Gilkey '12. In brief the suggestions are as follows:

1. That all undergraduate publications, the Dramatic Club, the Musical Clubs, the Pierian Sodality, and the Phi Beta Kappa, publish, written three weeks after the beginning of the college year, a definite statement of their aim, the work required of candidates and the conditions of election to membership.

2. That within four weeks after the beginning of college all undergraduate publications unite in holding a common smoker for Freshmen at which a representative of each paper shall be invited to speak, this common smoker in no way to interfere with individual smokers that the different publications may desire to give.

3. That the Student Council suggest to the Faculty the advisability of adding to the regular list of courses, a course or a half-course on,--a. Present day problems of American Government.

b. In Eugenics and the present theories concerning heredity and race improvement.

4. And perhaps most important of all the Committee has drawn up a permanent class constitution which is designed to systematize the methods of all class elections. This constitution has been very carefully considered, and amended by the Executive Committee.

The two other sub-committees, on "Dramatics" and "Subsidiary Athletics," have unfortunately failed to accomplish anything. However, there seems to be a large field of work for both these committees and it is hoped that some real results may be brought about before the end of the year.--This then concludes, in brief, the work of the sub-committees of this council.

Achievements of Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee has, itself, handled certain other work of considerable importance and has one matter to submit for your discussion this evening. This is the matter of organized cheering at baseball games. The Advisory Committee on baseball has written us two letters on the subject, stating the views, and asking for the opinion of the Council. This matter must be discussed tonight.

Of the remaining work of the Executive Committee, perhaps the most important has been the new scheme of Freshman elections which it inaugurated, the plan being ratified by 1915 as a whole. By this scheme:--

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