Word: projected
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...near the present site of the Craigie bridge and that a fresh-water basin be maintained at a permanent level. The report is most thorough and exhaustive, and its preparation required an immense amount of work covering a period of about two years. The engineering problems connected with the project, while complicated, are entirely capable of solution. The chief reasons for the construction of the dam are the resulting sanitary betterment of the contiguous region and the value which such a basin would have in relation to the Boston, Cambridge and Metropolitan park systems. Moreover it would be a great...
...number of graduates and friends of the University have pledged a sum of money for the carrying out of the project, and it is expected that this amount will be considerably increased now that definite steps, have been taken in the matter...
...This generous gift, taken in connection with previous subscriptions already reported, more than completes the sum of $765,000 required to secure Mr. J.D. Rockefeller's gift of $1,000,000 for the enlargement and endowment of the Harvard Medical School and thus insures the realization of our great project...
...gifts from Mr. James Stillman of New York, from members of the Medical Faculty, and from other donors whose names have not been made public. Since the circular was printed $88,000 in addition has been promised, reducing the sum still required to $206,000. The realization of the project seems therefore almost assured...
...monumentals illustrating the beginning and progress of German civilization to the present date. Professor Kuno Francke of the German department is now in Europe as the agent of the Museum. Professor Francke will devote a year to lecturing in Germany and Switzerland in order to arouse interest in the project and to purchasing objects for the Museum. Besides the objects from abroad, the Association hopes to exhibit from time to time many valuable German engravings that are now kept in the Fogg Museum...