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...findings of Sharlitt, who has made a preliminary, private investigation of the Council, were revealed at the various House meetings. It was shown that "70 percent of the Council members in the past ten years, have been club men; over one half have been from Eliot or Winthrop Houses; and more than 50 per- House Delegates Dunster Andrew S. Crichton '45 Kirkland Joseph D. Everingham 49 Lowell Jack Waller, Jr. '46 Leverett Raymond J. Considine '48 Adams Marvin S. Traub '46 Winthrop George R. Hooper...
...thing for this predicament is either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India--or in any of their other colonies. But whatever the cause, the effect exists in lean...
...following two complaints have been confirmed: Harvard Variety Store cigarettes, $21 a pack, (general rise has been to $.20) Bill's Place sandwiches and dinners, up average of 15 percent...
...popular fiction," he said, "like Books-of-the-Month, sell in enormous quantities. Copies become scattered in thousands of private libraries. Since Harvard always receives a large percent of its books in gifts, they come to us automatically...
...student problems that are peculiar to Harvard. But this law-making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its pre-1936, constitution-less, predecessor. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman committee and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years of Harvard politics to eventual appointment or "election" to the Council. Again, this is not evidence of lack of quality in any of the Councils...