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Before it is too late NSA must consciously set out to fulfill the crying necessity for a directing hierarchy unconnected with the many established influences at work on campuses everywhere. This is neither to rap any specific present leadership nor the particular point of view which a partisan group might advance. It is simply insurance that NSA not die of slow strangulation at the hands of those knowingly or not using it for personal political and special organizational ends...
...While NSA tries on its officials for size the young organization deserves every support from students and faculty in member institutions. The Council at its meeting tonight should provide for formal College-wide approval of the Constitution. Then if this year's program follows through nationally on the oft-urged principle of selecting limited projects not running up every beckoning side-alley--students on each campus with no prior loyalty may find their way into the work of the commissions. By next spring the second-year leadership will have reached its stature through a record utterly within the NSA fabric...
Recommendation for affiliation will be made in a report submitted at that time by the same six-man delegation that attended the NSA's constitutional congress at Madison, Wisconsin, earlier this month...
...NSA report, including the proposal that the Council vote for affiliation, will be submitted in person by the three delegates and their alternates who took part in the seven-day convention at Madison. They are Francis D. Fischer '48, Frederrick D. Houghteling '50, Selig S. Harrison, '48, William J. Richard, Jr. '49, David C. Poskanzer '50, and Weld himself...
Most of the report to the Council will be an account of the Madison conference, and the material part that the Harvard delegation played in its sessions, Weld said, although a brief sketch of the earlier organizational history of the NSA will also be included...