Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale had the same problems. Harkness, recognizing this, had tried to sell Yale officials, headed by President James Rowland Angell, on the ability of the "college" plan to keep the advantages of a small college without destroying the advantages of bigness. But, it is believed, Yale distrusted the experiment and was about to suggest that Harkness give his money for something else...
...Yale to accept his gift of the college system, Harkness turned to Harvard, and suggested to the Corporation that it get a House plan started with his financial backing. Despite considerable undergraduate opposition, the Corporation persevered and soon announced plans for the first two Houses...
...have been to spur Yale officials into seeing his point of view. He tacitly threatened them that he would continue to finance Harvard projects if they wouldn't accept his gift of the colleges. Apparently Yale official-dom saw the light, for Angell was soon expounding the college plan to alumni meetings. Shortly thereafter he announced the acceptance of Harkness' gift...
...Harvard Club officers choose to forget the students, they must not ignore the thousands of University alumni they represent, the thousands whose memorial this will be. There is a just and democratic way open to the gentlemen who meet this afternoon. This way is to set the Saltonstall Committee plan to one side and give University alumni the ballot they desire...
...Fellows come to Cambridge each September, arrange a set of courses, and attend as many lectures as they wish. They have a plan of study--which they set forth in their applications--but may do pretty much as they please once they arrive. Laboratories, libraries, professorial offices all are open to the vacationing journalists...