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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connected with it. The chief editor of City Planning, the official magazine of the profession, is Professor Henry Vincent Hubbard of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture at Harvard. Professor Hubbard received a grant last year from the Harvard Milton Fund for a field study of city, planning and zoning progress in the United States, the results of which will be published in a few weeks in a substantial volume entitled "Our Cities Today and Tomorrow," by T. K. and H. V. Hubbard...
...inhabitants in the general region of the Charles are well aware, construction is busily proceeding on at least one unit of the new House. Plan. Just across the way, legal considerations have prevented progress beyond a some-what insubstantial looking little brick wall. Of the ultimate appearance of either building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch...
Even the most cursory readers of the daily press must be now familiar with the fact that the Senate is investigating the activities of a man whose chief claim to fame is that of most famous thrower of monkey wrenches in the machinery of progress. On his own representation, he blocked the famous Geneva conference for a trifling monetary consideration. That he bent every effort toward doing so, there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except...
...question of Joe's successor is one which is giving the followers of Harvard football much worry. Obviously the team's record cannot be left as a hostage to chance. Some progress along these lines has already been accomplished and it is hoped that a definite announcement can be made within the next few days...
...group of light and power companies operating chiefly in New England. Out of all the rumors and rumbles, however, salient emerging points were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That in nine months it has made swift and certain progress; 3) But that the public utility situation, even in New York State alone, should certainly not be interpreted in terms of Mr. Morgan's throwing the switches, breaking the currents...