Word: planning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Crimson of the 1st inst. contained a report of a plan proposed at a meeting of the Harvard Base-Ball Association, for the union of the different athletic organizations of the university. The prime objects of this union are the regulation of expenses and consolidation of athletic interests. I should like to see such an union formed here. It certainly could do no harm and probably would be very beneficial. It would undoubtedly be more economical, for, as the system is at present, there is a tendency to extravagance. Each association receives subscriptions and makes expenditures independent...
...delivered last evening by Mr. Hadley before an audience which filled completely the lecture room in Sever. When railroads were first instituted, it was intended to run them in the same way as a high road. Each man was to own his cars and run separate trains. When this plan was found to be impossible the roads were incorporated under one head. One of the first subjects for controversy was the lack of competition to aid the industrial interests of the country by lowering the rates. The only remedy was the organization of a rival road. This peace was often...
...moment will largely be required for the publication of observations already make, and for effecting permanent improvements in the condition of the institution which have long been urgently needed. The remounting of the large telescope, and a new Observatory building, are in view, as well as a rather ambitions plan for the extension of astronomical investigation, which contemplates the support of researches conducted at other places by funds administered at Harvard. During the past year the Observatory has lost the services of Prof. Rogers, for a long series of year an indefatigable worker with the meridian circle. As a memorial...
...school for women will soon be started in connection with Princeton. It will be conducted on the same plan as the Annex...
There were twelve men present in Holden Chapel last night, and by a unanimous vote decided to accept the plan, as proposed, to regulate the expenses of the Foot-Ball Association. The meeting then broke up. Later on, four men presented themselves and waited twenty minutes wondering when the meeting was going to begin. It finally dawned upon them that the meeting was over, so they too, adjourned in quiteness...