Out of the Salzburg Seminar, the Council's great break into the realm of tangible accomplishment, a subtle development of leadership-consciousness has crept into the planning for the future. Although the Council has always held national prestige if only because of its name, today it enjoys international repute born of its hold step last summer.

In Europe no other American institution evokes half Harvard's response in informed youth circles. Beyond looking ahead to an expansion of the seminar scheme designed to bring a slimpse of the U. S. intellectual heritage to Continentals the Council new entertains plans ("in the conversation stage") for taking on the equipping of a divastated German University.

This will entail securing pencils and all the everyday paraphernalia which somehow isn't known today overseas. Like Salzburg, such a capsule-scale project serves as "an example, to show what is possible, so that other can follow up in helping to get European education back on its feet again."

In the United States the Council's long arm has extended well beyond what was once a provincial share into the new National Student Association. The first fumblings of this postwar attempt to secure country-wide coordination of action on student problems showed what a leading hand the Council's spokesmen would have to play.

At the preparatory Chicago Conference Council-sponsored delegate Douglas Cater '45 might have been elected president had he not declined the nomination for that post; Clifton R. Wharton '48 easily won the secretaryship.

Fisher Heads Committee

During the key months between the conference's end and the September's Madison Constitutional Convention, Francis D. Fisher '48 led the Council's international Activities Committee in a program that the infant NSA clutched as its very own.

But in spite of the stature that it gains and the perspective that its program acquires, the Council does not live or die on the basis of its activities in the international and national spheres.

Fundamentally it must justify its existence through its attack on pressing question in its own bailiwick. In this respect the Councils authoritative and comprehensive reports have become the bedrock of a good name earned the hard way.

A Council study before the war pointed to the need for the General Education concept which was later evolved by the Faculty. "Limitation of the Tutorial System" in the spring of last year may well have saved tutorial from slow death.