Word: projections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union was built as an experiment. The democracy of the project sounded good to a college accused of snobbishness, and for years now this fanciful democratic spirit has hypnotized the minds of men who should have seen and known. The Union has not attained the goal for which it was begun; the Union is a failure; and in order to revive the dying institution, compulsory membership is urged...
...make it a success fifty men must enroll. As thirty-five have already applied, fifteen more names will put the organization on a firm footing. Owing to the importance of the project, financial backing for the band has been assured. All members will be equipped with uniforms, and instruments, if they have none. Those eligible should apply promptly considering as inducements trips with the football team, and no small opportunity for really useful service...
...significance to the alumni even more than to undergraduates is the project of an agreement between Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Harvard to eliminate conflicts in the Christmas schedules of their musical and dramatic organizations. The need of a conference such as the one planned at the Harvard Club of New York was emphasized by the disastrous holiday season of 1914-15 when, for instance, Chicago had seven college concerts, St. Louis had four on four successive nights, and altogether Harvard conflicted with Yale on four of the eight cities in its itinerary. Such a situation necessarily dampens the reception which...
...students. Through the efforts of Mr. E. H. Clark '96, a movement was started before mid-years to build a pool in the Union. Hoping to make practical use of the dormant gymnasium fund of $10,000, he sounded interested persons on the matter, and all favored the project. A Boston architect was consulted. Plans were drawn up for a regulation pool to fill the lower part of the Union. It was to be in Pompeiian style, to measure seventy-five by thirty feet, with over fourteen feet bead room; to be ventilated artificially; to have an artesian well...
...project has met with the approval of the university and the class of 1918 will immediately proceed to sell stock and raise the money for the new dormitory. The Yale Alumni Weekly says: "The stand of the present sophomores, unwilling to face a third year as campus outcasts and yet ready to put their shoulders to the wheel in the matter of providing adequate freshman dormitory accommodations, cannot but command respectful attention and applause...