Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., September 30--The United Nations Economic and Social Council approved tonight a draft constitution for a proposed international refugee organization to care for Europe's 1,000,000 war refugees, but the document was promptly rejected by Soviet Russia, the Soviet Ukraine, and Yugoslavia...
...lower House of Deputies had refused to grasp it, instead had gingerly pushed it aside by voting: 1) to keep for another three years the Joint Commission on Unity, and request it to draft a new basis of union; 2) to ask the Presbyterians to produce a similar document; 3) to call for a standing commission on Church Unity to be set up by the Lambeth Conference...
...Committee for Constitutional Revision, originated during the summer term at the instance of the Crimson, Liberal Union, and AVC to draft a proposed Constitution for eventual adoption by the Student Council, met last night and unanimously endorsed the completed document...
...present document was foisted on the student body by the Student Council in 1936, was accepted by 17 members of that year's Council and by no one else, and has managed to thrive on college-wide indifference and slothfulness ever since. A student body that endows its governing organization with $5000 per year, that relies on this body for its sole representation before the Administration of the University, has accepted Council after Council at face value without realizing that this group unilaterally has assumed existence, power, and rules. If there are faults in the organization, if there are unhealthy...
...powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have caused further discussion, but still no student vote), Harvard was too absorbed in the Tercentenary Celebration to worry about a Student Council. So the present system, elections, or rather lack...