Word: welds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Declaring war on the recommendation announced yesterday by the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association Memorial Committee, Student Council President Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 last night said that the question of commemoration for the University's Second World War dead would dominate the agenda at next Wednesday's Council meeting...
...Weld don't talk about whether exuberance or deliberate intention caused the architects to come forth with a scheme costly to a staggering degree. They simply point to the colossally liberal scope of every aspect in that group of drawings. Four "large" meeting rooms are 20 by 65 feet. Ten "small" meeting rooms are 15 by 15. Provision is made for two broadcasting studios. Thirty offices would occupy space 10 by 20 each. Even the 11 rest rooms would boast dimensions...
...architect's concept," Weld declared, "is unfortunately completely out of proportion to any suggestions the Council ever made and to any actual need. It is too bad that the Council members responsible for the report on which the architects based their plans and their subsequent estimates were never con-consulted...
...Weld hesitates to say so in ringing words, but it is his belief that the entire proceedings, even irrespective of the price estimates, have not been conducted with the "impartiality we on the Council expected as a matter of course from this committee." A September 18 letter in advance of the recent meeting went to the Committee membership: Axt, Henry H. Chatfield '39, Kennedy, Lowell, Frederick F. Moseley, Jr. '36, George A. Perey '18, Nathan Pereles '04, George Rublee, '90, Philip C. Staples, Jr. '37, Thorndike, and Robert S. Wolcott '36. The author was chairman Saltonstall. Clear statements opposed...
...Weld strenuously objects to the conspicuous failure of the committee so far to provide for any extensive airing of the three choices still eligible for consideration. Not only does the listing of these in the official report devote disproportionate space to the plaque, but the "Alumni Bulletin" about to reach its readers treats each item with the greatest brevity, referring in one line to "a Student Activities Center in Cambridge...