Word: project
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...December 20th, 1881, circulars were issued by a committee of the institute setting forth a "project for the creation at Athens of an American School of Classical Literature, Art and Antiquities, upon the plan of the well-known French and German schools already established there," a project which had been under discussion in the institute for a considerable time. That committee then consisted of Prof. J. W. White (chairman), Prof. E. W. Gurney, Prof. Albert Harkness, Messrs. T. W. Ludlow, F. W. Palfrey; since that time the following names have been added to the committee : Fred'k J. d Peyster...
...efforts of the committee of fifty have been attended with considerable success. Men who have never boarded at Memorial have signified their willingness to enter there rather than see the project go down. Blanks to be signed have been distributed among the members of the committee, and they will at once proceed to canvass the college...
Columbia has finally consented to join with the American Institute of Archaeology, in connection with many other colleges, in the project of an American School at Athens...
...would again call attention to the project of the Lampoon board, of reprinting the best illustrations of the first series of that unique paper. It is several years since the paper was started, and there are very few men in college who are familiar with the wealth of keen wit so aptly expressed in these sketches. Their collection in book form will be a characteristic and amusing souvenir of college life...
...Philadelphia Record today will publish an article disclosing a scheme in connection with the proposed approval of the elevated railway project by city councils, wherein it is charged that a clique of New Yorkers, through an agent in that city, made overtures for bribing city councils and the newspapers, $50,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in bonds being set aside for corruption purposes, and that the agent fell into the snares of the street car managers, who drew out of him all the details of his scheme...