Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some eight months ago Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, of New York, originated the project of a university in Chicago. He at once communicated with the American Baptist Educational society to the effect that he would donate $600,000 as a nucleus for a college endowment fund. The conditions of his gift were that the money should not be used for purchasing a site or erecting buildings, but that the income should be used to defray current expenses. He also stipulated that $400,000 additional should be raised to be used for general purposes and the remainder to become a part...
...When the project of the excavation of the ancient site of Delphi first came before the college an active interest seemed to be taken in the matter both by the undergraduates and instructors. Professor Norton addressed a large and enthusiastic audience in Sever on the subject, and at that time there seemed no doubt, judging from the feeling of the college at large, that Harvard would bear her share in the efforts to unearth the site of the famous temple, the shrine at which the ancient world worshiped. The central interest of the Delphic temple has been so closely connected...
...upon intercollegiate contests, in regard to the places where and the days when they should be played, and the teams that shall take part therein. Thus it will be seen that the question of restricting Harvard athletics to New England is not a new question, that in fact, the project has been uppermost in the minds of our ultimate governing board, the overseers, during the last two years, and that in their recommendation to the committee just now quoted they had plainly not abandoned their purpose but simply left its consummation to the Athletic committee. It is obvious, therefore, that...
...that the new boat house will be stocked with a number of singles, pair-oars, and fours, not of the very lightest sort, but light enough to race in or to upset in. A meeting will be held, later in the season, of all those enough interested in the project of a sculling race even to talk about it. In the meantime, I suppose, the CRIMSON will be willing to print suggestions from any who may have plans or schemes to better the mode of carrying on the race...