Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Longfellow Memorial Association for aid in erecting a suitable memorial to the dead poet in Cambridge, should meet with generous support from Harvard men. It is peculiarly fitting that they should do their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present undergraduates...
...regular work, men are often compelled to defer the removal of conditions until the senior year, at which time, if a failure occurs, the unfortunate person is thrown into a most uncomfortable position. As you have hinted, the expense attendant upon extra examinations might be some hindrance to the project, but I am sure that any one would gladly pay thrice the expense if they were allowed to remove the condition at the beginning of the academic year...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: You have mentioned the project for a freshman class supper. Will you permit me to urge it? I know that it is out of all precedent, but is that a fatal objection? Is it really any objection? The reasons for the plan are these: The freshmen of '85 have, it is undoubtedly true, proved themselves dilatory in several respects. We have, to a certain extent, (though for fair reasons) been somewhat backward in contributing to sports. It is doubtful whether we will be a "high stand" class, either, or will produce many honor...
...project has met with more opposition than we had anticipated. Old and wise men have frowned upon it; private prejudices have operated against it," say the editors in their introduction. A succinct history, many will admit, of the beginnings of many similar student enterprises. A writer of a review article in one of the first pages gives a rather forcible statement of the condition of instruction at the college at that time. He says: "Educated in the old manner, and whipped, from our earliest days, into an acquaintance with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have...
When the announcement was made some time ago that steps should be taken to get up a new college song book, every one seemed so pleased with the project that we entertained no fear of its success, but lately it has been shown that the impression was wrong, although two meetings of the committee appointed have been held; at neither, was it possible to take any action in the matter, from the fact that not a sufficient number of the committee were present. The book proposed is certainly something that is desirable, and even needed, and we trust that enough...