Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a proposed maximum price range of $41 to $55 per month, approximately 55 students and their families will open the occupancy of the 400-unit University housing project, Harvardevens Village, formerly that part of Fort Devens known as Lovell General Hospital...
Anti-Gods v. Pro-Gods. Elwes planned the purchase and restoration of the abbey as a world project. It would be, first of all, a world memorial to the Roman Catholic dead of World War II. It would be inhabited and used by Benedictine monks. It would be a work by, and for, what he called the "seven English-speaking Catholic nations" (Britain, Eire, the four Dominions, the U.S.). It would be a retreat and meeting place for Catholics of all nations and for men of all Christian faiths. And it would be a bastion. "The world," Elwes says...
...restoration. All the opposition has come from ruin lovers who feel that any attempt to restore the abbey will deface its hoary beauty. The Office of Works, which must approve the plan, puts the chances of approval at 50-50. But scores of Anglican clergymen have warmly endorsed the project. So has one R. R. Verity, who identifies himself as a descendant of the first Abbot of Fountains Abbey. Says Simon Elwes: "It is in God's hands...
Having completely renovated part of the old Brunswick Hotel, the University plans to move in approximately 20 students and their wives at noon today. The project, aimed at alleviating partially the housing shortage for married students, will quarter only couples without children, since no cooking will be allowed in the rooms...
...avowed purpose of the project was to make it unnecessary for the girls to return to Shepard Street between classes and to allow more space for the mobs in Widener. Traditional Radcliffe deprecators will, of course, welcome the change, and an occasional queen walking down the aisle from the book desk will no longer waste a hundred man-hours of studious effort at every trip for a book...