HANDS ACROSS THE HOUSES

Bringing to a head the need for some more formal method of inter-House cooperation than has existed in the past, the current Leverett House Dance incident points the way for a definite revamping of the means of handling inter-House affairs. For the Leverett House Dance Committee, simply because of a misunderstanding of an agreement with the heads of the other House Committees, attempted to call off their projected Army Game party, incurring a loss in the interests of better cooperation between the Houses, and then found that no real agreement existed and that it could hold the affair after all.

It is hard to believe that such an incident could have occurred had there been a regular inter-House Committee, meeting formally with the Heads of all the Houses, for the purposes of settling dates, arrangements, and general business, and acting as a clearing house for all the Houses. Such a Committee should certainly now be set up to avert possible repetition of such embarrassments, and should function with all the paraphernalia of minutes, notices, and parliamentary procedure. The heads of the House Committees should bear the responsibility of inaugurating such an inter-House Committee, and of giving it the backing of all the Houses in the system. It is thus that a firmer foundation for inter-House cooperation can be built and the preference given to the interests of the College community as a whole, rather than the interests of a particular House in the group.