4. Nominations for House representative to the Council should be improved by providing nominations from the floor at a meeting with an adequate quorum, nomination of up to three men by the House Committee, and nomination by petitions of not less than forty House residents, to be circulated only after the first two modes of nomination have been completed and the nominees publicized.

Regarding the Council and the Houses considered collectively: (See also recommendations on Interhouse Dance Committee.)

1. The House Committee Chairmen should meet monthly as a consultative body with the President of the Student Council or due representative, and the chairman of the Interhouse Dance Committee.

2. As a part of what the Council can do to improve the workings of the House System, we feel that it should seriously reassess the advisability of continuing the existence of the Sophomore and Junior Class Committees. The election and supervision of these committees seems to us to give the Council unnecessary trouble.

Semi-Public Corporations

In general, there is among the semi-public organizations a proper desire for greater autonomy. But this must not be sought at the expense of a general Council supervision and coordination of the programs of these organizations. The Council should fulfill its proper function of overseeing the total pattern of student activities.

The program of the Council and the semi-public organizations could be related more effectively by an administrative vice-president of the Council. He would consult with these groups on matters of policy or budget to be brought before the Council, and could acquaint Council members in advance of any problems of these organizations to be brought to the Council floor.

Combined Charities

This Committee feels that an effort should be made to set up Combined Charities as a permanent semi-autonomous organization. Continuity of personnel might thus be achieved, and the uncertainties of the present temporary and dependent setup avoided. Permanence should also help promote a continual education of the student body in the value and the problems of the Drive.

Ideally, the Council should not raise its operating funds from the Charities Drive. It is the job of the Council to sell itself and its program to the student body.

Saizburg Seminar

. . . The name of Harvard and the fact that the project has the backing of Harvard students has not only been of great aid to the Seminar but has also brought Harvard much good will abroad.

Class Committee

This Committee seriously questions whether the Sophomore and Junior Class Committee serve a useful function. We do not question the Union Committee or the Permanent Class Committee or the Class Day Committee; the value of each is clear. But as the House is intended to become the primary unit of college life after the freshman year, Class Committees have found it difficult to sponsor successful functions in the past. The Council pays for these failures. Further, it may be doubled whether one class function really promotes the elusive objective of class unity. Perhaps that unity might well be dispensed with until the senior year.

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