Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choosing of the undergraduate personnel of the Houses undoubtedly presents some of the gravest problems in connection with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation...
...Harkness, through whose generosity it is possible for the Harvard House Plan to become a reality, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and was graduated from Yale in 1897. Besides being a director of many railroads, he is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Publishing Library, and the Union Theological Seminary...
Tomorrow morning the details of the House Plan will be announced for the first time to the majority of Harvard undergraduates. The pamphlet which will be sent to all students will initiate most members of the college into the secret rites which were instituted a year ago when the sudden news of the change of destiny of future Harvard men was first borne to the ears of an unsuspecting student body...
...which has clung like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...
Perhaps the engineers of the plan were wise in keeping the mob at bay, knowing that the flattery of being allowed to join the elect would dim the judgement of the fawning majority and insure a complete subjection to the wills of those that rule...