Whoops, cross post.
Mike C,
I wonder why DM's theory of giving back the 21 acres to the north (and just west of Haverford College) as drawn in your blue line doesn't get more love around here. After all - that would be the most logical trade - a 21 acre rectangle for a 21 acre rectangle, wouldn't it?
Of course, that then puts the Francis Land Swap prior to Nov. 1910, because a generalized triangle shows up on that concept map. All of which conflicts with other assumptions and facts like the 5 routings the next April and the formation of the committed the next January.
For David to be correct, MCC had to have split the design into two distinct areas of concern - with routing being placed in the land acquistion phase prior to Nov 1910. Again, if that Nov 10 concept plan comes out to 120 acres, then we will know that both the swap and the triangle almost certainly had to occur before the plan was drawn, and that all that was left was tweaking the road to the final golf holes in April. That would apparently make CBM's review of 5 routings pretty much simple tweaks to the basic routing.
Jim Sullivan describes all those possibiliies pretty well, too.
At some point, we can keep asking questions, but I think we need some kind of new info to come up with different answers. What is the definition of insanity again? The real question is not what we think happened, its what document would prove one of the two logical theories that surround this transaction. And, where would we get it?
It would seem that Wayne or TePaul, who claim 1400 different documents, would be the key to this game, but they aren't playing!