Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of news was evidence that in a country where all men are legally free & equal there is a wide and continuing gap between U.S. deeds and U.S. ideals. Eleven months ago President Truman appointed a special committee to see what could be done about closing that gap. Last week the committee, headed by General Electric's Charles Edward Wilson,* made its report...
Alternate possibilities which the Committee still grants a chance equal to its first choice are the undergraduate-endorsed Student Activities Center and a Medical Center. The report states that the three proposals will get an airing through the pages of the Alumni Bulletin. By the next meeting, scheduled for February, a "final" decision should have been reached...
...formal report claims that equal chance still exists for the Student Activities Center and Medical Center proposals. But according to Ralph Lowell '12, acting chairman until Leverett Saltonstall '14 returns from a European Congressional junket, the committee fought sore temptation to announce a final decision now. "Only deference to the Senator," Lowell admitted Wednesday, "determined our plan to wait until the turn of the year...
Wise in the ways of the extra-University world, Axt guessed that the financial estimate accompanying Shepley's plan could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
...Student Activities Center appropriate for a War Memorial? Dean Hudnut feels that by fostering cooperative creative activity it will prove the most appropriate memorial possible. Will it encompass the entire University? Graduate school organizations should of course have equal access to the Student Activities Center. Aren't scholarships a good idea? They are so good that countless hundreds already have been established. Will the Alumni contribute? A War Memorial solicitation, by the admission of Harvard Clubs President Ralph Lowell, transcends other appeals in the eyes of most donors...