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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...each year to work on long-range advisory projects. From now on freshmen will have two votes on the council, two representatives being chosen by the Union Committee to serve during the spring term and two more being elected by the class to serve in the fall...
This is not the first time the Social Committee has tried to weld the Houses into a solid, integrated phalanx. During the fall of 1948, exactly the same plan was attempted under identical conditions. In that instance, the deliberations that followed the pooling of gross receipts deteriorated into bitter haggling over an equitable distribution of the money, since it was observed that a couple of House Dance Committees has skimped on their entertainment and decorations outlay in order to squeeze the gross for as much net profit as possible--at the expense of the other Houses. Also at that time...
...recent history of maid service at Harvard is essentially that of the union from the time the A.F.L. attempted to capitalize on the wide-open labor situation. In the fall of 1936, the University cut the maids' hourly wage from 39 cents to '37 cents per hour. The alumni asked for contributions to make up the dicerence is yearly salary, and the fund was over-subscribed...
...third time within the last four years and for the second year in a row, Eliot House has produced a championship football team. Since the fall of 1947, the Elephants have lost only one game in the House league, and that was the '48 playoff against Kirkland. They won the crown in '47 and again last year and Friday they will try to take their third consecutive playoff game against the Yale College titleholder...
TENURE: In the future, council elections will take place in the fall instead of the spring; this means that members will serve from February to February instead of from September to June. There are two reasons why these changes have been proposed: 1) under the new system the retiring council will still be in college to help orientate the incoming group; 2) seniors no longer will have to serve during their final term--a time when they are busy with General Examinations and theses...