Word: plans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Research and the publication of information useful in city and regional planning will be one of the principal activities of the new School. Those who are sponsoring its foundation feel that one of its greatest values will be the opportunity it offers the community to secure information on the complex subjects which must be considered in forming and carrying out a regional plan...
...inhabitants in the general region of the Charles are well aware, construction is busily proceeding on at least one unit of the new House. Plan. Just across the way, legal considerations have prevented progress beyond a some-what insubstantial looking little brick wall. Of the ultimate appearance of either building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch...
...fact that no large group of people are responsible for the funds used in the realization of the House Plan may be thought in a sense to remove all technical necessity for the detailed promulgation of the plans for the individual units. But after all, Harvard men both present and prespective have a desire to know how the Harvard of the future is going to look and to be allowed a chance to comment upon it before all possibility of revision is closed. While satisfaction for this desire may not, in a legal sense, be demanded as right, a larger...
Early last winter, it is true, a general bird's-eye view of the prospective plan was offered for the inspection of interested persons, but since then much more definite plans have been drawn which have not been made public. That these drawings must contain much that would be generally interesting and enlightening is not to be doubted. Practical considerations also would seem to dictate that those directly responsible should take the rest of Harvard into their confidence if only as a sop to that militant class of persons who enjoy the making of caustic post facto comments when they...
...discovered, and this is especially true when the opposition is expected to count on its line attack for those vital two and three-yard gains the success of which often spells victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...