Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president, William Morris Hunt, have been chosen by MeBAC as the organization best fitted to carry out such a plan. Although Mr. Hunt is producer and "theatre man" of considerable accomplishment, I am sure he does not plan to use MeBAC to advance some drama group of his own at the expense of independent theatres--he would act as general supervisor of the whole project, would act as booking agent (as he has done with John Gielgud, the Theatre Nationale Populaire, and so on), and would no doubt also hire producers to present shows which would originate here in Boston...
...effort to eliminate the growing mass of 9G students, Dean Elder proposed a plan limiting the number of years of graduate study to four. The plan, alternately referred to as the "No degree--flee!" plan or the "write or perish" proposal, was voted down by the Faculty. There was, in the words of Eliott Perkins, only "a peeping chorus of ayes" in favor of the proposal...
Professor Seymour Harris came up with a plan of his own, after concluding that every Harvard student would eventually join the Brahmins. Harris calculated that a college student would make $100,000 more than a non-college student, and could therefore afford to buy his education on credit, on a sort of learn now, pay later, basis. When speculation arose as to how he had arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies...
Within the next month, therefore, the Western allies should present to the Soviet Union a step-by-step proposal which first leads to limitation then reduction of forces in both Germanies and finally to free elections and reunification. A proposal which demands more faces no chance of success; a plan which concedes more might lead to disaster...
...Plan Widened...