Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...French engineer, after a series of experiments with a loaf of bread baked by a Vassar College girl, now announces that the project of tunneling Mont Blanc is entirely practical...
...organized last year was unable to bring out a judiciously edited and representative book of college songs. But, as many of the members of that committee, however, graduated with '82, and as the originators of the idea have this year been unable to spend the necessary time, the project has been abandoned. The matter was pressed less earnestly than it would otherwise have been on account of the announced intention of the publisher of "Students' Songs" to bring out a new and greatly improved edition of that work. The long expected volume has at last appeared. Although, as a collection...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : I have been authorized by the joint committee on athletics of the corporation and faculty to state that they regard the fence about the new field as one of the most important features of the whole project, and it is decided that such a fence will be built if money sufficient for building it is subscribed...
...final, and perhaps the most effective, argument against the fence in the opinion of the faculty is the belief shared by its leading members, that the students themselves are really opposed to the project, although many of them do not see fit to express their sentiments on the question. Many of these reasons appear to have some foundation in the nature of the case; but it does not seem to us that, taking all the facts into consideration, they are strong enough, whether taken separately or together, to justify the abandonment of the plan as first proposed of building...
...meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, last week, in New York, the project was discussed of appealing to the citizens of New York and of the country at large for aid to enable them to convert the college into a metropolitan university, where students who are now compelled to go to European universities can obtain thorough instruction in the higher branches of learning...