Word: projection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, but adds that the prospects of such a scheme are not encouraging. We hardly believe that matters are as hopeless as the Herald correspondent puts it. Indeed, we have reason to think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will not be good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause...
...Union Railroad is considering the project of running their cars by the cable system now in successful operation in Chicago and San Francisco...
...Yale News states that there is some prospect of the formation of a canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been...
...Academy says : "The project has already taken shape to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Murillo, which took place in Seville in 1685. It is proposed to have a collection not only of the works of Murillo himself, but also of his contemporaries of the Spanish school and of living Spanish artists as well...
...conducted by others. Its objects will be primarily those of a school, though of a higher school than has been supposed by some, notably by one doting father in Pennsylvania, who has written proposing immediately to place his son, now preparing for Harvard, in the school at Athens. The project has aroused much interest in the English press, who watch all proceedings with a jealous eye. The Academy has even flattered the school by a report that already pound20,000 are in its hands, which it proposes to spend outright for buildings and a library. If the school does...