Word: elections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman class would elect one member to each of the four committees...
Each House would elect one member to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life...
...always seemed puzzling how the essentially pessimistic theology of Puritanism could become the underpinning of a buoyant, almost recklessly optimistic civilization. Part of the answer lies in the fact that the Puritan ethos not only posits the fall of man, it also implies the existence of an Elect of God. America has presumed itself to be God's chosen remnant, to the point where it very nearly subscribes to the anthropocentric heresy of Pelagius, the 5th century Christian ascetic who argued that man could gain salvation without divine grace by his efforts alone. Put in secular terms, the Pelagianism...
Under the system of "rotating" election, some Houses would elect members to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, and some would name members to the Committee on Students and Community Affairs...
Unless there are at least three Harvard students on the successor to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, there will be more Houses than student representatives to be elected, and some Houses presumably would elect only their one representative to the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which will have one student representative from each House...