Word: classed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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These minor committees fulfill what the Harvard student council would call its administrative functions. The only student group that funnels undergraduate opinion to the university administration consists of four men chosen annually from the senior class by the Dean...
...graduate of Yale in 1929, Griswold had an undergraduate career guaranteed to earn the respect of the most extra-curricular minded Yale man. He was noted as the class wit; condemned Phi Beta Kappa for luring muscularly competent men form athletics and making "nifties" of them; was acting chairman and later managing editor of the Yale Record; wrote a column for the Yale Daily News; and was a member of the Elizabethan Club, the Pundits, Psi Upsilon, and Wolf's Head, a secret society...
...present complete absence of a council is sort of an anomaly in the Yale community which claims to mold its sons particularly as statesmen, civic leaders, and administrators. A little squadron of committees exists to handle social activities, elections, and certain class events, but the duties of each are so specific and limited that no prestige is attached to membership...
...last extended attempt to set up a student council took place in December 1946 when Dean DeVane and several interested students polled the undergraduates and found Yale men favored a council by an astounding 2,540 to 501. Acting on the basis of this poll, the freshman class living on the old campus and the ten Colleges elected representatives to put together a constitution for the proposed council...
This was in line with a cherished Yale policy of no student government. Elis first expressed contempt for fellow student authority in 1830 in what has since come to be known as the Conic section Rebellion. The revolt was inspired by a combine in the sophomore class that took exception to the way students had to recite on conic sections...