Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of the 'House' plan is not scholastic in the educational sense, it is not athletic, it is social. That is to say, the aim is to create a society. What is a society? The dictionary tells us 'it is composed of persons united by the common bond of neighborhood and intercourse and recognizing one another as associates, friends, and acquaintances.' The one and only object of the 'House' plan is to create societies exactly under this definition...
Yesterday at the Harvard Union, under the auspices of the governing board of that organization, a luncheon, attended by a number of graduates and undergraduates, was held in an effort to learn the student opinion on the question of the disposal of the Union under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built...
...shot-put and 35-pound weight events will be held at the Briggs Cage, Saturday afternoon. All the other contests will be fought out at the Garden. The new plan whereby the 300-yard event is to be raced as three separate heats, with each runner to be timed and fastest times to determine the three place winners, is an innovation which gives each college a chance for a sweep of all three places. Heretofore, each college has been limited to two starters in the "300," which has been run in one heat...
...part of the general plan of development, Congress readily appropriated $4,250,000 to construct a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, along the bank of the Potomac, by which pilgrims from all over the land may have easy access to Washington's homes...
Like many of the details of University life under the House Plan, the question of the disposal of the Union is still in a distinctly fluid state. The decision of the Governing Board on the matter is as yet unmade and its effort to sound student opinion found the usual almost fifty-fifty verdict of Harvard. The discussion has been based on the assumption that future Freshman classes will be housed in the Yard, a measure evidently favored though not yet announced, and it is logical to view the subject on that basis, for the housing of the Freshmen elsewhere...