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...This plan, in the first place, follows out the suggestion made by us last week, that the upper classes should have the greatest number of delegates. This is certainly of great importance, and we hope it will not be overlooked in the meeting. It is the method of representation in the Amherst Senate, the student advisory and governing body, which has, up to this time, attracted most attention in the country on account of its successful working. The second feature of the plan which makes it worthy of consideration is the provision that every class of college men shall...
...morrow the delegates from the several classes meet the Conference Committee of the Faculty for the purpose of considering a method of establishing a permanent means of conference between the students and the faculty. To their consideration is offered the following plan, which, although by no means perfect, is free from the objections urged against the various schemes which have been thus far proposed...
...basis of representation will be first stated, and the feasibility of the plan afterwards discussed. The student members of the committee shall consist of representatives from...
...plan of election of delegates at class meetings is open to many objections, and it would be decidedly unwise to choose all the delegates in this way. But the students as a body ought to have some representation, and election by classes is the most practicable way in which this can be accomplished. In order to avoid undue haste in the choice of delegates, it might be well to require their election by ballot. Another regulation might be that one, but only one, delegate shall be chosen who is especially interested in athletics, thus avoiding the danger, which is often...
...This last is the most important feature of the plan. Whenever a question is to come up before the Conference Committee, the committee of the faculty, after consulting with the members of the student committee who are especially interested in the question under consideration, are to invite such students as are in their opinion best fitted to discuss, and most interested in the particular question which is to be brought up at the meeting. This obviates the difficulty of having so many permanent delegates on the committee as to make it cumbersome. The number need not be limited, but four...