Jay, your assessment of Macan is pretty much as uninformed as your opinion that the 17th at Yale is a Biarritz-style green. No offense here, but I think you should start over on your treatise.
To even suggest that Vernon Macan was schooled in Max Behr's theories, well, I've read most every publication Max has ever written and never once did I see him even mention the name Macan, and recently after playing my fourth Macan course I'm convinced now more then ever it is an entirely different study of golf architecture, nor representative of anything I've ever seen from Behr other then maybe the discussion of width which was the norm for every golf course designer during those days.
His shaping, almost rudimentary, but solidly placed to control water flow. Most of it was not just some odd shapes, yet most of it works. His hazards were placed not to entice--such as Behr's ingenious lines of charm, more as just another line of play to the hole. Macan's hazards were usually way out of the way or placed in a fashion not to penalize the weaker player, whereas Max's magnificently shaping looked as if it had been part of the original landscape and the naturally decorated and well placed hazards were just as much a part of the choice to be or not to be--as a choice of challenging the hazard. To actually lure the golfer.
It's a HUGE difference.
I suggest you seek out a few Macan courses for yourself. They are enjoyable places, although some of them obsoleted thanks to misguided green committees. I recently had the opportunity to play Fircrest in Tacoma, and honestly, if I had chosen to move to Tacoma--as the opportunity existed, I would more then likely have looked into joining Fircrest, I liked it that much. But it's in dire need of a lot of work.
You also have to be able to understand that much of this work your going to be looking at has been half-ass altered by an out of control green committee running amuck.
As far as the Herring Bone drainage, the highly-banked 1st fairway had recently had Herring Bone added to it. This is probably due to the course being built in 1924, before Macan came up with the idea, as well as the lack of suitable low area which to take it. (such as a pond or creek bed in the immediate vicinity. A routing error? No way! Especially as I like routings that let you see the course as you drive in, such as H. Chandler Egan's Tualatin CC and many others. Dangerous? Yes, but charming in the country club way of life.)