Word: projects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last year the project of having a skating rink for Harvard students was not proposed until last in the year, and the construction took so long that when the rink finally was completed, the majority of the students got little use out of it. The practical failure of last year's rink was due to several causes. In the first place, its small size restricted its use almost wholly to the members of the hockey team. In the second place, it was built on reclaimed land, which caused the water to run out and the ice to crack in consequence...
...editorial is an appreciative comment on the rise and progress of "East and West," a monthly magazine of letters started last fall by two Columbia graduates, desirous of preserving the literary ideals obtained in their academic work. Such a project deserves the support as well as the sympathy of college...
...building has not been determined positively. The Corporation will probably be asked to allow its erection on Holmes Field, near the old hospital building, now used by the Architectural School. Of the $1000 required for the project, $300 has already been raised...
...will be necessary to find rooms, furniture and bedding for the men in the College dormitories. There will be between five and six hundred of them. The undersigned feel that the students should aid to the best of their ability towards the carrying out of the great project undertaken by the President and Fellows, and should esteem it a privilege to contribute their share towards its success. A canvas of the College dormitories will therefore be made on Wednesday and Thursday for the purpose of obtaining the names of all men willing to give up their rooms, furniture, and bedding...
...Oxford, the American students of the University (about twenty-five) have organized the American Club of Oxford, for the purpose (1) of putting definite and pertinent information with regard to Oxford at the service of the intending student, and (2) of becoming sufficiently well-informed to advance any project on foot for adapting Oxford conditions to the needs of the American members of the University. To accomplish the first object, which is of more immediate concern, the club intends to print a circular in which it will try to anticipate the questions likely to be asked about the Oxford University...