Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...
Ever since the Houses started to sprout in the Charles River valley in the early 1930's, a gradual change has come over he roster of students living at College and in the Houses. Whether it was the House Plan itself, the Great Depression, or something else that inspired it, the policy of the Administration for the last decade or so has been to bring a cross section of the American Population into the unit of the wealthy and well-born that once was Harvard. The theory has been that education involves more than factual and theoretical knowledge; it includes...
Physically, the Houses have performed admirably. Although the architects discarded community washrooms, students can meet and listen to each other in dining hall, common room, library, music room, or in each others' suites. Alert House committees and Housemasters have further promoted the Plan with beer parties, dances, smokers, football games, forums bridge and rhumba lessons, and what-have...
...really use the Houses, this has all been fine. But so far the one great block to the success of the Plan has been that the Houses have not been able to bring together enough of their residents. A large number of men have not cared to enter Houses activities, either because they belong to a social club which draws their allegiance, or because they simply aren't interested. The second group is the largest, and the Houses have not attracted these men because of a variety of little and big reasons...
...While the Administration probably will continue to keep the student body varied and representative, the College will contain fewer and fewer war veterans. Since the non-veteran has had less contact with large numbers of his countrymen, he is loss adaptable to the purposes of the House Plan than the veteran. For this reason the Houses, which have made a respectable start in their work, must now crack down on all the big and little faults which have so far slowed up the House Plan...