Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggesting an alternative, the President holds the same views which prompted his support of the Compton Report on Universal Military Training in 1947. As an educator he sees advantages in the so-called Swiss plan: subjecting men from 18 to 28 to three or four summer camps of two or three months each and evening drill, presumably once a week, for ten years. If he wished, the eligible youth could volunteer for two years immediate service instead...
Some of this simplicity stems from economics in the rooms themselves there will be only one lavatory for each floor, and such items as private bedrooms and fireplaces will be eliminated. But these changes merely represent part of the larger plan that went into designing the dorms...
...each building has been worked out on what architects call "a structural common denominator"--meaning that one basic plan or blueprint covers the entire project. All double rooms will be exactly the same size, and to make two single suites the builders need only fit an additional partition down the middle...
Hence the ground plan of Jarvis Court will have plenty of open, landscaped courtyards to offset the massed effect of the buildings, while the dormitories themselves have enough variation in design to be "uniform but not regimented...
Last week, some Seniors had complained that they were located in the lower 11 rows of section 35 while Juniors were seated in the top of the section. The new plan assumes that a high seat is more desirable than a location nearer the field on the same yard-line...