Word: mays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reorganization. "Reorganization is a necessity of sound administration. . . . The presentation of any specific plan enlivens opposition from every official whose authority may be curtailed ... of citizens who are selfishly interested. ... All administrative activities should be placed in groups under singleheaded responsibility ... while quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions should be removed from, individual authority and assigned to boards and commissions. ... It is desirable that we first have experience with these groups in action before we create new departments. ... I can see no hope for sound reorganization unless Congress be willing to delegate its authority to the executive who should...
...time in which Juniors may apply for admission to Lowell and Dunster Houses will be extended from December 10 to the night of December 15, following the consent of the Masters allowing the extension. Applications for Lowell and Dunster Houses may be filed at A University Hall until 1 o'clock, Saturday, December 14, and between 1 o'clock Saturday, and 10 o'clock Sunday evening, December 15, with Mason Hammond '25, Senior Tutor of Lowell House at George Smith A-21, and with E. S. Mason, Senior Tutor of Dunster House at 7 Stoughton Hall...
Since before many years the undergraduate at New Haven may face a similar decision the results of the room applications at Cambridge ought to be viewed with especial interest. Undergraduate opinion there has been consistently hostile to the House Plan, yet the University authorities have gone ahead with no appreciable alteration of their original plans. Now the undergraduate must either refuse to acquire an intimate knowledge of the coming Harvard or accept the usual inconveniences of living under experimental conditions. We hesitate to predict the proportion who will choose the latter course, yet undoubtedly many will acquiesce in it against...
...shall at any rate watch with a very real interest the forthcoming developments, inasmuch as they will be the first manifestations of a movement, which may affect many American universities. They are certain to be quite at odds with anything we have hitherto tried on any scale; as such they merit careful consideration. In the last analysis, however, we are secretly glad that the hostages of fortune will be drawn from other ranks than ours. --Yale News
...fact, the Vagabond is happy enthusiastically to declare Lowell House a success to date. If he can afford the rent, he intends later on to climb five flights to paradise on the sixth floor. Blow the winds as they may, in this remote retreat he will still have one eye on the works...