Beware The Politician

When the Masters meet today and discuss the manner of their appointments of inter-House council members, they had better be careful, and stop, and look. There is an unpleasant number of students in each of the Houses who will shortly be knocking on the Masters' study doors, aspiring and available young men who would be glad to take the burden of inter-House membership. These are just the kind of twerp politico types that the Student Council should not include in its membership. The reason Masters should appoint students is just that it is desirable to avoid the slick and often incompetent student-elected representatives, and to get more capable men in the student government.

Of course the Masters can't know the qualifications of all their House members; they need advice. They should go for this advice to their tutors, and rely on recommendations from the senior common room, not from the student-elected House committee or from individuals blowing their own horns.