Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the University, which will be used as Harvard's contribution to the Louvain Library. After a week of canvassing about ten percent, we believe, of the 100 percent enrollment has been procured. Of course it is true this Louvain Library is generally regarded as an estimable project and that most American colleges have already rather freely contributed to it. Yet, when a drive proves vexatious and troublesome (as is always the case), Harvard students adopt the only intelligent attitude-they ignore...
...magnitude of such a project as this "Plan of New York" and the problems to be overcome before it can begin to be realized are evident. What has already been accomplished by the "Plan of Chicago" undertaken less thoroughly and less far-sighted in vision, shows the possibilities for city-development carefully planned with practical idealism. Today the proverbial saying that "all good Americans go to Paris when they die" finds its converse in the popular belief that all bad Americans go to New York and live. Certainly, there is no question that the city has reached its saturation point...
...itself, it is estimated, will cost in the neighborhood of one million dollars, four hundred thousand of which must be raised before the operation of building can progress and this must come from the college students of America. The entire purpose of asking the college man to support the project is one of building sentiment in to the stone and mortar--sentiment which will last longer than the marble itself. It is to be a gift from the students of America to the scholars of Europe...
Professor J. L. Lowes will preside at tonight's meeting and Dean G. H. Edgell and Mr. Whitney Warren will be the speakers. They will explain the reconstruction project in full and will describe the work which has already been done...
...eventually be restored by the civilized nations of the world as a gesture of protest against such barbarism. He was present at the first meeting in France at which this sentiment was expressed, and volunteered his services at that time: Since then, he has been at work on the project continuously, and is endeavoring to make this memorial the masterpiece of his career...