Rally Round the Tree, Boys

Student Council concern that its President's political statements have been misrepresented as popular Harvard sentiment, shall end when a thoughtful new approach is implemented. Censure, impeachment, or legislation may not prevent a similar situation arising in the future; but changing the name of the erstwhile Harvard Student Council will.

No longer shall a student speak out as "President of the Harvard Student Council;" he shall henceforth be President of an august body whose name is sacred to its constituents but--thankfully--meaningless to the general public. It is hard to imagine how the President of the Charles River Union or the Society of 1936 or the Monday Evening Inter house Discussion Group can be misconstrued as the representative voice of that potpourri known as the Harvard student body.

Researchers assigned to the project of renaming the Council first recommended that it honor the founder of the organization, but discovered just in time that the Harvard CRIMSON way responsible for creating the group in 1908.

With a sense of obligation towards its wayward and spoiled child, CRIMSON foster parents have decided that the offspring shall henceforth be known as the Elm Tree Society. The elm Tree, we are told, was once the gathering place in the Yard for dissident rebels in the student body.

The CRIMSON hereby welcomes the Elm Tree Society to the fellowship of student rebels and dares any national magazine to imply that the views of the Elm Tree Society President indicate a conservative revival at Harvard.