Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meshes, in most parts of the body, varying amounts of fat. The hairs and the nails are growths of the epidermis; the lines which you may see on the nails correspond to the elevations on the skin below over which the nail is moulded. The hairs do not project down the skin at a right angle to its surface, but are placed obliquely, so that they incline towards the body...
...become members of them are obliged to go to heavy expense in the way of fees and assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means a new one, in fact, the matter was discussed in the old Harvard Herald some few years ago. Yet the project has many points to commend it to favorable deliberation. For instance, by forming a club of this kind with a large membership, a small assessment fee would be amply sufficient to provide many desirable features of club life, such as a good reading-room, a comfortable smoking room, and telephone...
...Yale gymnasium project is suffering from the report that nearly the whole amount necessary has been subscribed. Only a little over $1.000 has been pledged...
...readers that Yale athletics suffer greatly from the want of a gymnasium adequate to the needs of the large number of athletic organizations which Yale possesses. A few evenings ago a large mass meeting of the Yale students, under the presidency of Prof. Richards, met to discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great a burden upon the students...
Here is a project indeed for the bettering of a college course! It is true that the average student is without family ties while in college, but family ties are not the only ties that would bind him to any one place. To ask a college man to leave one college and go to another is to ask him to be a freshmen over again, to go through the trials of learning new ways and making new acquaintances a second time - trials which no one hungers after. But these are not the worst features of such changes...