Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portion of the American Civilization Plan which is open to the general public consists this fall of a series of lectures on the general topic of "Backgrounds of American Architecture" by Lewis Mumford
Also named was Henry Nash Smith, Freshman American Civilization Counselor, who has been chosen executive secretary of the Plan. This office is a new one, while Malone succeeds to the post vacated by Paul Buck, associate professor of History, who resigned one month ago upon his appointment as an assistant dean of the faculty...
...first public statement as head of the American Civilization Plan, Malone paid credit to his predecessors, Howard M. Jones, professor of English, and Dean Buck, and to Smith, the ranking Counselor, for their parts in the establishment of the program...
...choosing two such capable leaders as Dumas Malone and Henry Nash Smith, President Conant has given the American Civilization Plan a new lease on life. After drifting along without unified direction since Professor Buck's resignation as chairman a month ago, the Plan is at last in efficient hands. Those hands have a clear task ahead of them, for they must resuscitate an idea which has all but perished from administrative neglect and unfavorable publicity...
Although the appointment of the director of the Harvard Press as chairman of the American Civilization Plan is no doubt surprising to many, those familiar with Dr. Malone's record can only appland the selection. As historian, professor, and editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, he has amply qualified himself for his new status...