SIGNS OF LIFE

Foresight in a body of student representatives is rarely found; the often unwillingly elected intermediaries between faculty and undergraduates are usually content to consider merely what is handed to them in cut and dried form. It is therefore encouraging to note that the Student Council is looking to the future.

Too often in the past has the Council depended entirely upon the recommendations of dean and faculty to guide their actions. Not since the report leading to a recommendation concerning the House Plan has any major good come out of those casual meetings in University Hall. With the advent of the House Plan, in all its magnificence of brick and stone, will come problems less easy of solution than those of rooms and dining halls. A properly organized Student Council, much as it may have been needed in past years. Will be doubly valuable when the College is confronted by the social ramifications of the new Houses.

Had the Council neglected to consider that new problems in the University will call for adaptation of its organization to suit the need, it might well have been abandoned as an intermediary group. If it is to continue in existence, it must be organically fit to study effectively the requirements of College life. And, what is more important, it must engage actively in the solution of problems accompanying the House Plan. If the Council does well the work it has begun in the study of the Freshman year, the problem of inter-House athletics, and the investigation of the tutorial system and General Examinations, it will produce results which in themselves will be well worth the effort. The ever-changing Harvard of today cannot suffer from intelligent study, and the Student Council can justify its existence by showing its ability in a time when problems abound Should it succeed, its foresight will be justified.