Word: plans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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irregular angle with everything, and these accidents occur all over the property. A chart is needed by which the ship shall be steered. A well studied plan seems essential which, so far as may prove practicable, shall be followed in the future...
...Such a plan will, moreover, indicate the demands of the College and the vacancies in the grounds. The opportunity for a man to build a creditable monument would be plainly apparent and would attract a donor-but what donor will be attract to Harvard if the result of his outlay is more than likely to be criticized by men of good judgment, as marring the symmetry of the grounds? In a word a well prepared scheme will attract, and a confused condition repel, a benefactor...
...Harvard must either increase its accommodations shortly or stop its growth, now is an excellent time to fix at least on paper the main lines upon which to build in the future. Indeed it is even possible that a well prepared plan might impel an intending benefactor to give to the College the funds needed to properly develop some part of the College grounds, by building avenues and roads and setting up trees and shrubbery, creating in this way suitable building sites. The grading and planting of a quadrangle and its decoration with aisles and walks, and steps and avenues...
...closing their report the committee expressed itself as persuaded that a more carefully studied plan of this general sort is what should be made with all information and suggestion embodied in it that the President and Fellows can supply, for no landscape plan can be of value unless the Corporation thus lend their aid to its formation and are interested in its execution...
That the President and Fellows are in the best position to judge the desirability of such a plan is undoubted, they are in closer touch with all that is of present or future importance to the University than any of the Governing Boards. Notwithstanding, there is much in the plans of the committee which, we believe, would prove of lasting benefit to the University. Even if it is undesirable that a complete scheme for the future development of the College property should be formulated, even if the future needs of the College in the way of buildings cannot be outlined...