Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many groups of a dozen or more men to go bail for each other's honors in this way; that certain groups of men might form such clubs for the express purpose of cheating; that a club honestly formed might not remain pure, etc. In brief, the project met no favor. Now, to me this little incident was a revelation of the low ebb to which the college tone had sunk as regards effective moral opinion. I thought I could perceive that what made this scheme unpromising was not so much the conviction that even in such clubs men would...
There is a project at the Institute of Technology for establishing a scholarship in memory of the late President Rogers. It is proposed to raise the required fund by contributions from alumni to be paid in annual installments...
There is a project on foot for lighting the Williams College buildings by electricity...
...organized Gun Club of the University of Pennsylvania intended to send up a representative team to accompany the foot-ball eleven to-day, but owing to lack of time for practice the project has been abandoned...
...this is extremely necessary if the project of going to England to row with Oxford is entertained. If they go there it will take from $6,000 to $10,000, and the Yale alumni don't want to go to that expense unless they are sure they can send over a winning crew. If Yale is not dispirited and disheartened this year at foot-ball, and if the University crew shows up in good form the English boys many have a chance to test the excellence of the Yale crew.- N. Y. Herald...