Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring the doubtful jury around from a position of cold hostility to warm and enthusiastic support. It is in this power to away the feelings of the audience from one side to the other that the author displays his true dramatic mastery...
What goal will such a grouping of students serve to approach? Any intelligently directed educational institution will, I believe, confess as its fundamental aim the encouragement of intellectual activity and the increase of intellectual power among its students. Its social structure should be planned or altered with this underlying intellectual purpose in mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well...
...purchase of this site by Harvard was made in connection with its plans for the ultimate completion of the House Plan. President Lowell's program for subdividing the undergraduate body into small residential groups calls for the erection of a new unit on the land now occupied by the power house. The building is a substation of the Elevated, acting in a reserve capacity, and it also supplies heat by means of a tunnel for the University buildings in the yard and to the north of it as well as across the river to the Business School...
...destruction of the present power house will of course, necessitate the erection of a new plant, for which the University is now drawing up plans. the site of the new structure, which will be on land already held by the University, has not yet been definitely decided upon, but the most probable location is that to the east of the Business School, back from the Charles River...
...will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 1930, on the piece of land on the corner of Mill and Plympton Streets and on University property along Memorial Drive below McKinlock Hall. It seems likely that the third new House will be constructed on the site of the power plant just purchased. In view of the late transference of this property to Harvard, this House will probably not be finished until...