Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Franklin Roosevelt loves the Supreme Court any better because his plan to change the Court was beaten, no one in Washington ever believed. Last week when he got around to signing the modest Court Bill enacted by Congress, he made it the occasion for a statement that served several political purposes: It demonstrated that he had not backed down from his original views. It peppered the bill actually passed with criticisms designed to show its total inadequacy. And finally it insisted that his own defeated plan was not just the President's desire but one of the heart...
...House Plan, with its tendency to separate students into groups, has made the Council the unifying factor in the undergraduate life. While the majority of members are elected, the constitution of the Council makes sure that there are enough appointed positions to insure complete representation of all groups. Almost all questions which concern undergraduate life as a whole come to the attention of the Council. In general these questions are educational or athletic, but the Council is also in charge of all class elections, all appointments of committees and routine duties. It issues reports on all question which seem significant...
When the Class of 1941 enters Harvard College this Fall, the Class of 1938 will be rounding out the last of its four years under the House Plan. The Senior Class this year will hold the distinction of having been the fourth to go through Harvard under the House Plan...
...four years of college have been divided under the House Plan into two distinct periods. Harvard is perhaps unique among colleges in the extent to which the Freshman year is set apart as a unit. Besides living together in the Yard, the first-year men have their own eating and recreational center in the UNION, now turned over to their exclusive use. In athletics there is a complete set-up of Freshmen teams, while the intramural sports are being organized on a dormitory basis corresponding to the inter-House program of the uppercases...
Freshmen are excluded from the Houses because of the intimate relation existing between the House Plan and the TUTORIAL SYSTEM. The real difference in the four-year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many colleges. By the end of his first year, if not before, the student is expected to be ready to do work of university grade and to work under a tutor...