News
Amid Boston Overdose Crisis, a Pair of Harvard Students Are Bringing Narcan to the Red Line
News
At First Cambridge City Council Election Forum, Candidates Clash Over Building Emissions
News
Harvard’s Updated Sustainability Plan Garners Optimistic Responses from Student Climate Activists
News
‘Sunroof’ Singer Nicky Youre Lights Up Harvard Yard at Crimson Jam
News
‘The Architect of the Whole Plan’: Harvard Law Graduate Ken Chesebro’s Path to Jan. 6
At a meeting of the ten members of the Student Council elected at the beginning of April held last night, the five additional men for the Council were appointed. Three of these five have been chosen from the present Junior class and two have been picked from the class of 1928.
The 1927 appointees are Joseph Fels Barnes of New Hartford, Conn.; Alexander Johnson Casatt of Rosemont, Pa., and Henry Sewall Woodbridge of Brookline. The two new members from the present sophomore class are Henry Wilkinson Bragdon of New York City, and Barrett Williams of Boston. These men immediately became full members of the 1926-27 Council.
Third Council of New System
This system of appointment of a third of the Student Council by the ten elected members is of recent inauguration, the 1926-27 Council being the third since it has been in effect.
Up until 1924 the Student Council was a large, unwieldy and rather impotent body, to which only four men, one from each class, were elected. In addition to these, the captains and managers of the major sports, a representative of the Minor Sports Council, the Presidents of the three periodicals, and the class officers automatically became members in an ex-officio capacity. It was found, three years ago, that, as a general thing, this body not only took little interest in, or felt serious responsibility for the activities of the Council but was, besides very difficult to get together for concerted action.
Council Post a Responsible One
The new system was inaugurated in order, first to cut down the council to a more easily handled size, and second, to do away with the feeling that membership in the Council is not an ex-officio honor, but a responsible position of prestige. Fifteen men from the two upper classes compose the entire present body of the Council, and of these ten are elected by the members of the classes.
As it was felt that if all the members were elected, only men who were prominent in the undergraduate eye would attain membership, it was decided that five men should be appointed. In this way men of great ability who are, nevertheless, not so well known to their classmates, are enabled to take part in the work of the Council; and, in addition, by this means groups not likely to become parts of the Council can gain a representative.
The entire body of members of the Student Council for 1926-27 will meet next Monday night to elect their officers.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.