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...member of the committee are: Chairman Saltonstall, Acting Chairman Lowell, Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, Henry H. Chattield '89, John F. Kennedy '40, Frederick F. Moseley, Jr. '36, George A. Perey '18, Nathan Pereles '04, George Rublee '90, Philip C. Staples, Jr. '37, Augustus Thorndike '19, and Robert S. Wolcott...
Lone dissenter at the dozen-man-sessions two Sundays ago was Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, Council President at the time of the poll showing overwhelming support in Cambridge for a Student Activities Center. Augustus Thorndike '19, who insisted for personal reasons that his vote be technically considered for the Medical Center, actually favors the plaque-scholarship combination and has stated that he will go along with the flock on the next tally. The vote of Representative John F. Kennedy '40, seriously ill, is not known...
...Axt and his successor Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46 say they have only begun to fight. "It is hard to imagine in these days," Weld remarked at news of the committee's viewpoint, "that men of affairs could suggest $200,000 for any plaque of any sort in any location with so many constructive projects crying for support." To Weld the "constructive project" is mandate demands he back to the end has undergone a sort of sly five-month-long slow strangulation...
Wise in the ways of the extra-University world, Axt guessed that the financial estimate accompanying Shepley's plan could hardly bring joy to that Alumni officialdom faced with the money-raising chores for any War Memorial. The figure was a minimum of $3,000,000 exclusive of an equal endowment for operational expenses. No one doubted that it would require that sum easily to meet the mythical ideal envisaged in the sheaf of blueprints...
Clark said that the student population here would have its views represented on the 11-man body through Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, last year's Student Council President. It was during Axt's tenure that a College-wide poll showed over-whelming support for a Student Activities Center as a logical "utilitarian" choice...