Sixty-two and a half cents still wanted the job, so the president was asked "his views on the hiring of a Council member to do a Council job." He pondered a minute, then said, "It's never been done before, but it's a good idea."

This opinion almost carried the day, but for the intervention of a man from Lowell House, who squelched it by crying "poor form." They decided to hire someone else and pay a dollar.

Sixty two and a half had another bright idea. He though the Council should have more members. "Tremendous new vistas are opening up, and ofttimes these vistas have to be ignored," because the Council is undermanned, he declaimed.

Another member thought it might look as though the members were trying to protect their own posts by creating new jobs, but sixty two and a half said, "Sometimes y'have to be a martyr and suffer the slings and arrows of public opinion."

A spectator walked in wearing a dinner jacket and a mustache.

Discussion proceeded, as motions to close debate lost repeatedly. One tall member protested, "Four more long-winded members and we wouldn't get out till midnight."

Sixty two and a half said new members were needed to man "the free textbook liberry for the poor kids."

A corduroy jacket walked over to us and asked, "Do you know parliamentary procedure?" We admitted that we did, and he asked us how to block the move for more members. "Move to adjourn," we whispered, and he did so. The president's jaw fell open about four inches. The vice president smiled ghoulishly, and voted for adjournment, but he was the only one besides corduroy jacket who did so.

At last the issue came to a vote. Did the Council need more members in order to function efficiently? Only four members out of twelve voting thought that it did, and as we left we agreed with the majority.