A HOME FOR THE COUNCIL

The main obstacle to the efficient conduct of undergraduate affairs is the lack of continuity of administration, which prevents a committee of one year from taking advantage of the mistakes and experience of the men of the previous year. Although it is impossible to prevent this annual change of management in a college, a great deal can be done to increase the efficiency of administration by the use of reports.

Because of the complication of his task, the Chairman of the Class Day Committee each year makes out a report which is indispensable to the Chairman of the following year; but because the duties of the Senior Nominating Committee, the Senior Dormitory Committee, and the Junior Dance Committee are somewhat less numerous, these committees have struggled along from year to year without the benefit of their predecessors' experience. Such matters us dates for beginning work, notices for the CRIMSON, experience with individuals and firms, would be of great value to a new committee. Reports of these details would not only prevent such occurrences as the election mismanagement this year, which was caused almost entirely by the inability of the Senior Nominating Committee to find out what its duties were and when they should be done, but they would also bring about a great saving in expenditure by a better informed allotment of contracts.

The chief drawback in carrying out such a plan, has been the lack of any place for keeping reports, even if they were made. The Class Day records are kept in an inaccesible store room in the basement of Widener; the Student Council records drift from Secretary to Secretary, and are slowly being depleted due to loss and carelessness. The whole difficulty could be nicely settled if the Student Council were given permanent quarters where records of this kind could be kept. The management of the Union has agreed to set aside a room for the use of the Council if it is felt there is a need for it. Such a plan would give the Council a real "home," and would be of incalculable use to the personnel of undergraduate committees as a treasure room of almost indispensable information of every sort.