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...Faculty Council's recommendations of cross-field concentrations will see their first practical application today, as Dean Chase appoints four committees to deal with the down-to-brass-tacks problems of the Council proposal. The plan has already met its first criticism, in the light of its function under the University system, as the opinions of four professors were submitted yesterday...
...function of House dances is not to provide copy for Boston gossip columns nor to compete with Boston night clubs. It is to create throughout the year an inexpensive and congenial social season for House members and their friends. This can best be done by limiting the size and cost of dances and possibly increasing their number...
...minority whom such an arrangement would not please fall into two camps. For those who would like the drawing power of a large social function to attract distant damsels, a class dance still remains a possibility. Those, on the other hand, who disdainfully mutter "Corn!" at the mention of a small orchestra, can get more jitters per dollar in Boston, where hot spots, in addition to good bands, alcohol and floor shows, have the virtue of being out of earshot from Cambridge...
...importance of the Central Committee in assigning men must not be over-emphasized. It will not seek out men who are too shy to let a Housemaster know how good they are. The Committee's chief function is to take the names of the men not admitted by the House of their first choice and bring these names to the attention of under-applied Houses, with the end in view of aiding Housemasters to achieve an approximate cross-section
...future? It would seem best to abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine...