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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been understood that my acceptance of the directorship would not commit me to any long continued term, and it was with some personal regret that I made a report which I felt might commit me for a longer time than I had contemplated; that is, for the length of time which would be required for this reorganization...
...staff have now, after long study, reported a plan for extensive rearrangement of the collection which promises to make it admirably adapted for purposes of promoting research study and teaching. This plan will be based upon a change throughout the Museum from the artistic to a scientific arrangement, and will involve the installation in an accessible manner, of material for class room, laboratory, and research specimens, together with offices in which visiting scientists may assemble specimens which cannot be submitted to student handling. It is believed, too, that the rearrangements, and the adoption of sequence in the display collections, will...
...winter of 1927, with the approaching promotion of the late Director to the rank of emeritus, it was felt that the time had come when modernization of the Museum, and its rearrangement into the still greater teaching implement, which the Division had long deserved, should at last be undertaken. Dr. S. K. Lothrop '15, who has done distinguished scientific work and was in the employ of the American Museum in New York, was invited to succeed, and he accepted the position. In the spring of last year, after having had an opportunity of estimating the condition of the Museum...
...always tell Louie's courses. He writes straight across both pages. Sometimes he takes the appendix home. I call him Doe when he does that--kidding. He got A in Ec A. That's a guy with imagination Joe. He goes back, he told me, sometimes as long as a year afterward and changes his handwriting and writes answers to his old gags...
...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...