Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV. He has been conspicuous as well in the business world, and is at present trustee or director of more than 50 different corporations. It is believed that he was the first to suggest anything similar to the present House Plan, of which he is a warm supporter, when he spoke at Columbia University...
...defending the House Plan before the onslaught of flying rumors of opposition Professor Coolidge emphasized the fact that the new Houses will effect no change in the educational curriculum, whatsoever. He stressed the argument that the new plan was merely a natural step in the evolution of the college in conformance with the outside influences of Cambridge and Boston...
...object of the 'House plan' as proposed for Harvard is social, and in the broader sense cultural. There is no question of sub-dividing the present methods of instruction, of changing the requirements for degrees, or of altering the scope and method of instruction. Professors, assistant professors, and instructors will be Harvard teachers, not teachers of this or that 'House.' Degrees will be Harvard degrees carrying the authority of three hundred years of unbroken traditions. The President of Harvard University will be President of the whole University and all of its component parts...
...Lampoon's satire are mainly that it is in poor taste, Quite possibly. But what is at issue here is something more vital than any question of taste; more vital than the respect unquestionably due Mr. Harkness for his munificent gift; more vital even than the "House Plan" of instruction. What is at issue here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere...
...individuality is still fostered in this machine-sewn, mass-quantity-production, stamping-mill, best-possible-of-all-universes, the United States, then why complain when its undergraduates do express themselves, even if maladroitly? Are these youngsters comically and unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there is a sportmanship of the intellect, and it forbids us, in dealing with adversaries, to demand that the game be canceled before having been played and ourselves adjudged the winners...