Word: projections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year's ago some graduates of Harvard, who realized the lack of unity in our college life, proposed the formation of a University Club. An effort to get an expression of undergraduate opinion on the project resulted in a few indifferent criticisms. As no enthusiasm was awakened, the matter, for the time was dropped. Since then a more lively feeling seems to have arisen. At various gatherings of students a strong sentiment of dissatisfaction with present social conditions and eagerness for some practicable reform has been apparent. The most practicable plan yet presented is that of a University Club. Every...
What is now needed to set the University Club project which has lain idle so long squarely on its feet is in the first place of course a show of decided interest on the part of the undergraduates which will assure contributors as to the tangibility of the plan and in the second place something to clinch this tangibility, a sum of money to give it a definite start. The $60,000 which has been subscribed for a Brooks Memorial is 25 per cent. of the sum needed to guarantee the building of this club and it seems only just...
...occasion is now more favorable for raising funds, and we urge that the subject be thoroughly agitated. Furthermore, we wish to repeat a suggestion made in this column last spring. It was that the money, some $60,000, which has been raised for the Brooks House project, be made a neucleus for this more comprehensive improvement. It must be remembered that the original plan for the Brooks Memorial has dwindled sadly. Instead of $300,000 only $60,000 has been raised, so that at the best that plan is but a make shift. Even were this not so, a University...
...Weld Boat Club, to establish a training school for all men who wish to avail themselves of it. Thus far, though but a moderate number of Freshmen have come out, yet a beginning has been made and it is to be hoped that those interested in the project will persevere in their efforts...
...been thought for some time that Freshman teams would be materially bettered, were it possible to keep the whole squad in training throughout the season, and the offering of these cups is an attempt at carrying out this movement. At present the only hindrance to the furtherance of this project is the limited space available for Freshman football...