Graduates Set Up Tri-Committee Advisory Council

Meeting formally for the first time last night, the newly-formed Graduate Student Advisory Council laid out a five-point program of overall objectives and sub-divided itself into three working committees to handle specifically graduate problems.

Gerald L. Holton 2G, resident tutor in Winthrop House and until last night temporary chairman of the group, was elected president of the 19-man Council.

In addition of announcing the general objectives, Holton disclosed that a constitution was being drafted by a steering committee composed of three committee chairmen and Holton, and that future expansion into other graduate schools was being contemplated.

The five aims of the Graduate Council announced by Holton were as follows:

1) to originate and carry out at the request of either faculty or students, investigations of problems of interest to either group.

2) To Provide a regular channel between the student body and the Administration for communications, requests, and suggestions.

3) The achievement of these aims depends so largely on a spirit of cooperation between the Administration and the student body that its is proper of stress as one of the purposes of the Council the maintenance of and implementation of this spirit of friendly cooperation.

4) To stimulate and provide for an adequate social life of the graduate community, including inter-departmental discussion groups and athletics.

5) Since the Council is an experiment, another purpose is to fund its most effective form and basis of operation.

The three committees set up last night will deal with Administration and policies, including degree and language requirements, economic and other problems of the graduate students including housing, scholarship and fellowships, and placement; the third committee will handle social activities. Temporary chairmen for the committees are, in order: Benjamin F. Bart, Harry S. Granter, and, sharing the chair Munor Edmunson and Nevilla Wright of Radcliffe.

Holton also asked for opinions and problems from men now in the Graduate to guide the work of the new Council.