COUNCIL ACTIVE THIS YEAR

One of the most important pieces of work which the Student Council has accomplished this year has been the forming of a committee to formulate plans for, and take charge of, military organization within the University. Through the untiring efforts of this committee, the "Harvard Regiment" came into existence.

Another question the Council has taken up has been the question of compulsory membership in the Union. A committee was appointed to take charge of this and several open discussions have been held at the Union.

The subject of helping men working their way through college by having student waiters at Memorial Hall has been agitated by the Council this year, as it realized that there were very few definite ways of an undergraduate obtaining a permanent source of income in the University.

Still an additional enactment brought about by the Council has been the taking men off probation, who have been put on for disciplinary purposes, before their term of probation is up, if they have done well in their studies since their time of going on.

Began Work in 1908.

The Student Council has now been in active operation since 1908. It was established then with the express purpose of co-operating with the Faculty in the endeavor to raise the general intellectual standard, and particularly to bring before the governing authorities of the University the complete expression of undergraduate opinion, whatever form that opinion might take. In addition, the petition presented to the Faculty concerning the establishment of a student council, brought up the important mission it would have in helping the Athletic Committee in eradicating any of the evils that might crop out in the conduct of athletics.

The Student Council has done important work in the past. Not only has it joined with the Faculty and aided the clearing up of numerous undergraduate difficulties, but it has assumed burdens which were not directly its own and put things through which could not have been done otherwise. The usefulness of such a body is becoming continually more apparent with its increasing scope and widening range of control.

The members of the Council are now chosen as follows: (1) the four class presidents; (2) the captains and managers of the five major teams; (3) the chief executive of each of the college papers; (4) vice-president of the Union; (5) three representatives from the Phi Beta Kappa elected by its members; (6) ten members from the College at large elected by their respective classes as follows: 2 Seniors, 4 Juniors, 1 Sophomore, 1 Freshman (to be elected at time of the election of class officers, except in case of the Senior class); (7) president of Phillips Brooks House; (8) president of the Musical Clubs Association.

The Council has two important sub-committees: an Executive Committee and a Nominating Committee, each composed of seven members. The former attends to small matters of detail which it would be difficult for the Council at large to handle, while the latter has to do with the nominating of the members to be voted on by the various classes.