Simmons College - Microcosm Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The lvwmmble Mi.r.r jane Baud. We are Stu- . . . This year Student Government Council started in September with the Workshop to coordinate the year's plans for student activities through clubs, committees, and publications. The plan to ask for volunteers before all student nominations was put into operation. A political forum, an all-college organization, was proposed early in the school yearg its purpose is to integrate and strengthen political activity, assembly programs on current political questions, and to precipitate Wider inter- est in community, state, national, and international governments. Temporary officers were elected to a provisional executive board, representatives of the political forums of other colleges were invited to speak at Stu-G open meetingsg the proposed Forum constitution was posted on Stu-G's bulletin board. By February, Forum was ready to be voted on, and during the two days of balloting an overwhelming majority of the students ratified the Constitution and the Forum became a major branch of 1949's Stu-G. Cbrirt11za,r forma! mmm az knockout , . . May Day :newly the rtmzdourr. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE if ORVILLE WRIGHT if FRITZ KREISLER

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sibilit , Stzmfent ovewzmenlp Honor Board and Dorm Council rettle zmztterr of .rtzzderzt dirciplifze. high degree of self-government were quite Well es- tablished, and during the following years Stu-G worked to develop and clarify the purpose of an honor system. At the beginning of Student Guild in 1902 the need for an honor system was recognized, but the problems of its function and authority seemed almost insoluble. By 1906 students were given a trialg the June exams that year were unproctored, and each student signed the statement, 1 have xl . fa .f Q ,. -X3 '-'-Itlv-m1--up-n-1 x ii 1 d 1 Q neither given or received aid. This system ap- parently Worked, but by 1911 a new plan was put into effect in an attempt to overcome the student's indifference and reluctance to report dishonesty. Each course voted on whether or not to accept the honor system for that particular courseg one hun- dred percent affirmative vote was necessary for its acceptance. Until 1931 this approach to a system of honor was used, with minor modifications. ln 1931 in- dividual pledges Were discontinued. Every student admitted to Simmons College was automatically responsible to the Honor System. Signatures on the certificate of admission were not, and are not, required, but the very small number Who have not signed the Honor System's pledge in the past eight- een years is proof of its iustness and its liberality. During the 1930's Stu-G strengthened this new Honor System and adapted it to dormitory as well as class regulations. Women Suffrage Passedi States to Decide issue Million for Endowment Fund

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The sum of its parts, ez mf! of the total. ln December, just before the Christmas week- end of Compets, Christmas Pageant, Glee Club Vespers, Stu-G Formal, and Olde English Dinner, Simmons Student Government was hostess to the Greater Boston Student Government Council. At this meeting, with representatives from twenty-six Boston colleges, Eleanor Tufts was elected chair- man of the Greater Boston Councilg and out of this and later meetings ofthe Council came the serious realization of how much greater in many respects is the self-government of Simmons students than that permitted in other colleges, both in Boston and in the rest ofthe country. This realization underscored the Christmas festiv- ities that are traditions sponsored by classes, clubs, and Student Governmentg it Was the theme that accompanied subsequent Stu-G activities. The traditions like Bib Party, Pops Night, Field Day, 7 Workshop, the library-loan plan, the toy drive, and Forum, are important in themselves. But these and all the other activities that have added immeasurably to the academic and profes- sional areas of college life assume much greater importance indications of the scope and security of individual and group responsibility Simmons students have attained in forty-seven years. Re- sponsibility, respect, and freedom become synony- mous when applied to students governing them- selves through their own Student Government. .Siomellving doing every dm' af Ibe zreek for Effeu Mamzing. Junior Welcoming Committee, Hall Table, May Day, and the innovations that included this year the student production of H.M.S. Piimfore, Stu-G The V.P.'.r talk it over, feb Black, fmze Bzzxfon. 29 EDWARD W. BOK if KAISER WILHELM f MARSHAL FOCH