Word: planned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advisable for the Canoe Club to build an addition for their own use, as by so doing they would secure the privileges of the boat house. A committee consisting of Messrs Crowninshield, Cheney and Townsend was appointed to confer with Professor Agassiz who has immediate control of the plan in order to find out under what conditions the addition could be built. and what privileges the members would secure...
Clark University will be opened next October, and although no catalogue or even prospectus has yet been issued, the authorities expect to make known their plans in the course of a few weeks. Only three members of the faculty, in addition to President G. S. Hall, have yet been chosen; these are Dr. H. H. Donaldson, Dr. S. C. Sanford, and Dr. W. R. Lombard, all assistant professors. President Hall has recently been abroad to secure the services of some eminent Germans, but did not meet with much success, owing to the unfavorable action of Bismarck. The university is intended...
...meeting of the officers and directors of the Harvard Shooting Club was held last evening, at which a plan was brought forward to get up a tournament, and to invite teams from the different colleges to compete. If this plan is carried out, the tournament will probably be held in Cambridge, some time in May, and six or seven teams will be invited to participate. Shooting clubs are becoming so popular in the different colleges that it is thought desirable to extend the matches beyond the annual match with the University of Pennsylvania; and for this purpose, the tournament...
...ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water. The Panama canal has proved impossible on account of a river near it which cannot be controlled, and the canal...
...race was run in very fast time, and was close and exciting. The two races between Harvard and Tech. This year have both been so successful that it is to be hoped that a similar race may be a regular semi-annual, or at least, an annual event. A plan has been proposed which will easily and effectually accomplish this. The scheme is to have a perpetual challenge cup to be subscribed jointly by the clubs Space might be left on the cup for the names of the winning teams, and in the course of a few years it would...