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Shelving of the combination of a $200,000 tablet and a $500,000 scholarship fund, the memorial idea favored by all but two of the Committee members at its last meeting, came as a surprise to many people involved in the discussion over memorial plans. The Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center, three representatives of which presented the case for an activities center in the early part of yesterday's meeting, greeted the new plan favorably...
...three-fold plan, the combined Memorial Church tablet, Memorial Hall renovation with room for extra-curricular activities, and auditorium additions to Mem Hall certainly make a more functional and more appropriate memorial than the plaque-scholarship idea originally favored by the Committee. While many students will feel that a Student Activities Center in a building of its own would have been more effective than the diverse facts of the new plans, all will recognize the progress towards a useful and integrated memorial...
Inclusion of facilities for extra-curricular activities in the plan adopted yesterday is another sign of progressive thought on the Committee's part. The Memorial Hall basement, while not possessing the glamor of a new Activities Center, does have good potentialities. The sole problem in this area will be what to do with the psychological laboratories now occupying the lower level of Mem Hall-laboratories whose work demands that facilities as good as those they have now be found for them...
...Memorial Hall is perhaps the touches part of yesterday's announcement. The location is fine for a theater, and the proximity to Sanders may be valuable for rehearsal arrangements. The big question is whether an adequate new theater can be built, along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness...
Economy is one of the new proposal's strongest aspects. By building around Memorial Hall, the Committee evidently intends to combine various services and therefore to save money, and its cost figure would seem to indicate success. If the entire plan--looked at best as a "package"--can really be done for $750,000 the Committee will indeed have produced a much-desired miracle...