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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestions have been brought forward. The idea of a university club has been rejected as unfeasible and inadequate to the task of reuniting the two groups. The proposal of building exclusively for student activities met better reception, but there was danger that it might fall in its purpose through lack of patronage, since the powerful Triangle club has removed to quarters of its own. The proposed university center is planned to combine the best features of both, in that, as the seat of activities, it will not tend to be left to the nonclubmen alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON'S UNION | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...still definitely up to those in higher authority to permit a certain loss during the early days of experimentation. A virtual subsidy of this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTOCRAT OF THE DINING TABLE | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

...feeling of the Harvard student body that there is a need for an outlet for dramatic expression in Cambridge. The University has offered no adequate means to develop this latent desire for instruction in the theatrical arts, and the present scheme will include those who have felt strongly the lack of this essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SLEEPER WAKES | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

...goal of the Library is still a long way off, especially in its lack of adequate foreign material. According to one member of the staff, the Baker Library may be said to have passed adolescence and is approaching maturity, but still has a serious task ahead if it is to live up to its present splendid promise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...units of the House Plan. Whether, in time, this group will be included, or whether separate quarters will be provided for it is still in doubt. But before the problem of the disposal of these some 200 students is finally solved, it is necessary to note both the lack of fairness and the lack of wisdom in separating the Engineering School from the remainder of the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

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