Word: projected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project has a larger purpose--that of broadening the minds of the students, not only by way of facts learned and information gathered in the many countries visited, but through personal contacts with individuals, observation of peoples and forms of life hitherto strange and unknown to them. Such an experience can scarcely fail to enrich the minds of those taking part in it, at the same time creating new interes's for them and producing a truer perspective on their own lives and the country to which they will return. The difference is more one of attitude rather than places...
...contributor to the Harvard Fund . . . says. "I hesitated some time to send anything so small as $5, considering the proportions of the project." Many graduates may be hesitating to subscribe to the fund for a similar reason. If they are, it is because they have in some way misunderstood the principles on which the Fund was founded. "The proportions of the project" are such that every man is asked to give only whatever it is convenient for him to give. The important thing, irrespective of the six of his check, is that he should become a contributor...
...spring, a corporation was formed to undertake the erection of a twelve story hotel on this site. As this building would have been placed in the very center of the district between the group of College buildings in the Harvard Yard and the group along the Charles River the project aroused considerable opposition. Among those who felt this objection most strongly was Mr. Stillman, and under his direction the site of the Church and the rectory was purchased by Moodna Farms. During the past year the land has been held by this corporation. But in February, it has just been...
...buildings are to be erected between Mt. Auburn and Brattle Streets in the vicinity of Doane Street. The project comes as a result of the investigations of the recently formed Harvard Housing Trust into the problem of inadequate accommodations for graduate students which at present is especially serious for those who are married. With over 100 such in several of the graduate departments it is impossible for a large proportion of them to find any suitable place to live in Cambridge. Every fall hundreds of them after vain attempts to locate some lodging place near the University are forced...
...University and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, was always known for his interest in the personal and human problems of his students. This was undoubtedly one of the chief elements in his popularity among all those who knew him. It was felt by the sponsors of the new project, which is to lessen the difficulties of married graduates, that the plan should honor the name of a man whose interests were in similar problems of his students...