Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over a coast-to-coast network James Roosevelt debated the Administration's Executive Reorganization Plan with Indiana's Congressman Samuel Pettengill, defending his father against charges of "dictatorship." Said Son James: "The history of dictatorships in the modern world shows that they have not crept up inside the governments of democracies through the gradual increase of the powers of the executive branch...
...from New Haven announces a proposal to group all Eli Freshmen on the Old Campus next year. This move would oust about 350 upperclassmen, chiefly Sophomores, from their mellow quarters and replace them with some 500 Yearlings. This is a natural step in the development of the Yale College plan, patterned after the Harvard Houses. And it raises the same question there which has been raised more than once here--namely, what is to become of several hundred upperclassmen for whom there are no regular accommodations available...
Applicants must file with their application a plan of the course of study they wish to follow...
...widow of a Milwankee publisher has bequeathed a million dollars so that newspapermen, on their leaves of absense, can study at Harvard. She hopes that this will elevate the standards of journalism in the United States. We do, too, but we're afraid that the plan has its drawbacks. For one thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could...
...possible for the holders to obtain a leave of absense from their regular work without too great financial loss... The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue... The plan is frankly experimental... We are, however, embarking on this enterprise with high hopes, confirmed by the favorable opinion of many journalists, editors and publishers who have been consulted... --Report of the President of Harvard University to the Board of Overseers...