Word: projection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...after the model of the Hemenway Gymnasium. Dr. Sargent has been engaged to furnish it, and a lady instructor, who has had a full training under him, is to drill the students daily. Private classes are also to be formed. The students are all very much interested in the project...
...chapel. It is a picturesque structure, built of rough, slate-colored stone, and is set off by a medieval-looking tower after the style of an Italian campanile. Its general symmetry is, in the opinion of some, slightly marred by several excrescences with small spires, that project from the roof and produce a somewhat unpleasant effect upon the near spectator...
...other colleges, there are undoubtedly many whose interest in the subject is sincere and earnest, and who are very willing to aid the cause in any way in their power. At one college, we understand, there is already a civil service reform among the students, and at Princeton the project of forming one is now being agitated. There would seem to be no reason why this movement should not spread throughout all the colleges of this country, and why its agitation and promotion should not be undertaken directly by college men. Of course there are many whose views...
...graduates of Yale have recently taken in hand the better organization of the University Club, the idea of which originated some months ago, but for want of vigorous management the project did not come to a successful issue. The intention of the founders, we are told, is to establish a pleasant and elegant club-house where students and graduates can meet in social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems...
...mind is not in an active state during the evening, it may certainly be said that if the faculties are sufficiently alert to be occupied in severe study for four or five hours they could certainly bear the strain of recitation for one-half of the time. While the project may seem a little visionary now, it will surely be adopted at some time in the near future, for it has many advantages...