Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attention is drawn elsewhere in these columns to the effort recently Instituted at Columbia to adopt higher education to varying life programs. As outlined by Dean Herbert D. Hawkes, the plan seems designed to remedy such defects as have been found by many, in the plan of study which Harvard has developed of recent years. his so far as this may be true, it will be well for Harvard men to keep their eyes turned towards Columbia. It may well be that President Butler is right and that in endeavoring to arouse undergraduate interest in intellectual activity, Harvard has erred...
...building is offered to Widener Library through the completion of the new Mallinckrodt Chemistry Laboratory which makes the space formerly occupied by the Chemistry Department available for other purposes. Any parts of Boylston Hall not occupied by the Library will be converted into general offices, according to a tentative plan...
...result of lack of understanding on the part of the Freshmen and Sophmore classes of the purposes and advantages of the Budget system. This information is printed on the pledge cards which were included in all registration envelopes. The list of beneficiaries of the Budget and the itemized plan of proposed expenditure of the money collected are also printed on these cards...
Previous to September, 1926, the undergraduate body was annually harassed and solicited by various drives for philanthropic purposes which reaped a considerable but unevenly distributed harvest from the charitable. The Budget plan, introduced two years ago by the Finance Committee of the Student Council, centralized the collection and expenditure of money by undergraduates. The Class Funds, collections, church drives and eleemosynary canvasses were eliminated entirely and one initial request for a $ 5.00 subscription substituted. A similar method had already been adopted and successfully practiced at Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
Foremost among these is the club activities of the Union itself Under the direction of the Governing Board the Union has pursued two general policies. The Union occupies a central place in University life. Moreover it attracts to its membership a large number of men who do not plan to use the Union regulariy as a place to eat. To satisfy this large group, nearly all University receptions are held in the Union; prominent speakers, political, religious., dramatic and literary, are our guests; many dances are given throughout the year...