Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housing units finds many faults with the details of the Student Council plan, as might be expected when an authority views the suggestions of laymen. The objections, however, deal with the superficial aspects of the plan, and seem to find no fault with the report's basic idea of a more or less cloistered second Yard...
...should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing in this concluding paragraph practically the same major premise advocated by Mr. Pond, the Council...
...result which could be called unified. There should be the sense of comradeship which used to be inherent in the old class system, before they became too large. By throwing together men of widely varying mental equipment and cultural interests there might be a general stimulation of the educational idea, the idea that the University is an institution of learning rather than "A finishing school for young men." Ideally, there should be the discouragement of cliques and small social whirlpools of any sort within the separate "houses", while their whole purpose would be the encouragement of intellectual endeavor as small...
Unfortunately there lurks in the back ground the alarming possibility of civil service regulation. A Democratic Senator has proposed the idea. Of course there is really little danger, particularly because administration officials, it is said, hope to obtain enumerators of "a very high standard of intelligence," such as members of women's clubs, who will volunteer for the work "as a patriotic duty." Obviously such people could be persuaded to serve only by a system of unrestricted appointment. So that whatever one may think in comparing the different reasons offered the conclusion in high circles is unanimously for high-minded...
...underlying object of the Report is evidently a second Yard. In order to strengthen then this idea the Council advanced a plan of its own for the new building program. But this could only be a corollary to the project of the Yard, and as long as the new Houses are not arranged so as to disrupt the area entirely as an entity the undergraduate plea will be answered. If the idea behind the whole House plan prevents a symmetrical arrangement and a harmonious architecture, there is no definite reason why one unit should stare placidly across a vista...