Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered in a new and second Yard a practical solution of the future construction problem. Passing over the question of the problematic success or failure of the proposed hoses, the Council points to the present opportunity of strengthening the physical homogeneity of the college. The aim of its report is fundamentally to direct the additions to the College into such channels as will assure not merely architectural harmony but a symmetrical unification of the whole new dormitory system with the present lay-out between Mt. Auburn Street and the river...
...west, is virtually all owned by the University. The advisability of acquiring the rest, in view of the construction of the new Houses, is evident. The CRIMSON has previously pointed out the objections to further construction of dormitories on the river front east of McKinlock. The Council report "deplores any attempt to build houses beyond McKinlock Hall on the river front." With these considerations in mind, the locality most favorable for the new houses is plainly that confined within the proposed boundaries of the second Yard. "A comprehensive plan of development" for this area is the plea of the Student...
...large quadrangle with long vistas which eventually would have fine elms and shady paths after the manner of the present Yard", as suggested by the report, is entirely possible by the careful choice of sites for the new buildings and the elimination of streets. The immediate danger to anything approaching this orderly arrangement is the imminent location of one of the first new Houses at the northwest corner of Mill Street and Plympton. This would place the new house directly opposite Gore and absolutely preclude an ultimate development having even a remote connection with the plan of the Student Council...
...paramount objection to a plan so extensive in its scope is likely to be the cost. To build the first unit on the DeWolf Street frontage, as the report suggests, instead of on the vacant lot behind Gore, would involve the demolition of almost a block of houses. This would add something to the expense but the advantage of the project seem to outweigh any expenditure incurred by tearing down a few frame and brick structures. Furthermore, while the report stipulates the purchase of the plot bounded by the Smith Halls, Dunster, Boylston, and Mt. Auburn Streets, this acquisition...
...spirit of emulation, as President Lowell points out in his last annual report, should help to accomplish this--the desire of each "house" to achieve intellectual and athletic distinction in rivalry with its fellows. But this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald...