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...appearance of Richard and the other delegates will constitute only one phase of what is expected to be a jammed Council session tonight. Richard G. Axt '46, Council representative on the Alumni War Memorial Committee will officially present the war memorial Committee's recommendation...
...Axt and 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...
...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 the alleged crucial University needs that are pressed upon us." Specifically he plugged...
...with a $1,500,000 figure from Shepley Wednesday and an endowment approximation by Lowell the same day of an even million. This is admittedly not a maximum estimate and would have to undergo revision were labor and material costs to suddenly rise. But Axt feels it is a figure which would probably have created a psychological climate more favorable to his cause had it appeared two months...
...present time Axt seems convinced that the only hope for a memorial other than the plaque-scholarship duo rests with the arousing of sufficient informed support within the body of younger Alumni, especially veterans of the recent war, to sell the committee a new version of the General Will...