The Student Council voted unanimously last night to permit the Phillips Brooks House Association Drives Committee to operate the Combined Charities Drive on a trial basis next year, under Council control. The move was made "in the interests of a better drive."

The group agreed that in May the Council would name the chairman, who would either be in the Council or be appointed a member of it.

The Council then voted 12 to 3 not to endorse a letter from the Harvard Young Democrats which recommended that future Combined Charities drives should not advertise in "normally-political publications," since this might "tend to indicate partisan preference" on the committee's part. The letter referred to the committee's advertisement in the Times-Republican during this year's drive.

Although several Council members thought this letter "unrealistic" and saw the ad as just "another medium of publicity," others felt that the T-R was "a partisan mouthpiece in which I don't think we should advertise." Another member remarked that the T-R did no harm, since "many people throw it out anyway."