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...early election and unorthodox nominating procedure (labelled as a self-perpetuating move on Friday by the Revisionists) on the grounds that the Council was at present four men under strength. He cited three major committees -- Extra-Curricular, Housing, and Student Finance--as being swamped with work and "unable to function effectively since every available Council member is already occupied with other matters...
...feeding a major share of Harvard thousands is but one of the many duties handled by the new secretary. His primary function is to act as adviser, leader, and sponsor for Yardling social activities...
Typical of the commercial trend is the new Record Album-of-the-Month Club, an illogical offspring of the book club species, Serving no original function, the Club duplicates already excellent record reviews such as those of the Gramophone Shop and Bernard Haggin, while high-pressuring gramophone owners into buying albums of similar music which they could have purchased all along. Encouraging musical inertia and lack of discrimination, the new group misses a chance to concentrate on new music, and winds up by mailing the dances from "Prince Igor" one month and "Annie Get Your Gun" the next...
President Conant warned that while rigorous analysis and critical evaluation of all ideas is the function of the University, there is the danger of overly-destructive criticism, leading to the development of "sentimentalists who reject critical analysis and cynics who reject ideals...
...with it; the alarm clock nature uses is the changing length of the day. Unconsciously, the animal's inner organism watches the duration of daylight. When the days have lengthened (or diminished) long enough, the reproductive organs of both sexes begin to grow. They are ready to function at the ideal mating season...