Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deposit Library, a square windowless structure behind the soccer field, was constructed just before the war. It was largely the brainchild of Keyes D. Metcalf, University librarian, who brought the important libraries of the Boston area into the plan and got Harvard to put up $250,000 for the construction of the building...
...Council committee's plan paralled that of a faculty committee now existing under Dean Bender which is considering the return of education to the House level. The Council committee apparently feels the same as the faculty, that opportunities for the student in the large University to have personal contact with other students and with his teachers have been greatly reduced by cuts in tutorial and crowded conditions...
...return of the Houses from their present state as "dormitories" to their intended role as decentralized "educational units" would be one method of effecting this personalization of learning. It is with this in mind that the Council committee starts its plan, and it is for this goal that the faculty committee is considering changing the Deans' setup and placing a dean in each House, along with possible (and as yet unannounced) changes in advising and tutorial programs...
Radcliffe's Class of '52 won a $75 appropriation from the Student Council yesterday to finance the annual sophomore managed Christmas Supper according to a new plan...
...replacing the benches with modern study chairs, the University was planning to scrap the planks for lumber, but the Alumni Association intervened with its plan to turn the benches out to pasture. All contributions for the benches will be used for the refurbishing of Wadsworth House which is being remodeled into an Alumni Center...