Word: centered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's report scrapped the activities center project, in addition to plane for a medical center. "It was apparent," the report said, "that, with the amounts it was known the University needed for many purpose, a large-scale drive for a War Memorial would be unwise... The failure of such a drive would be disastrous...
...While the Committee was much impressed with the sincerity of the Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center, and the need for a student center," the report read, "the Committee felt that a Student Center, while possible as a form of war memorial, was not a proper one for it to recommend because (of) its costs... Further more such a Memorial might become outmoded for the purpose for which it would be dedicated...
...earlier draft of the report said, "The Committee still felt a Student Center, basically was not a proper form of War Memorial..." Axt effected passage of the amendment partially recognizing the value of a center...
Since its creation early in 1947, Senator Saltonstall's War Memorial Committee has considered a flock of large scale plans for a commemoration of the University's World War II dead. They have included a $500,000 scholarship fund, a new medical center, and a $2,500,000 activities center. These were all projects of recognized merit. But now the Committee apparently has scrapped them for all time. Instead it has urged alumni to buy a $50,000 plaque in Memorial Church, and as far as a memorial goes, to call...
...come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent specifically wished for an activities center. Thirty-seven out of 43 undergraduate groups endorsed such a project. From that Spring forward, the Council and other College groups have pushed for a home for displaced College organizations...