Word: projects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Foster will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given in the Union at 6 o'clock by the executive committee of the Harvard Mission, a new project which will be explained at tonight's meeting. At this dinner President Eliot, several members of the faculty, and a number of undergraduates will be present. Mr. Foster will also be the guest of honor at a luncheon to be given at the Colonial Club by Professor A. B. Hart...
...agitation for the building of this dam which will be of such great importance to the University, has been of long duration. The project of a tidal basin in the Back Bay was first suggested in 1859, but not until the establishment of the permanent Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893 was it realized that the construction of a river park and embankment along the Charles River was essential to the scheme of public parks. A committee reported in favor of a dam, but nothing further was done. For the past three years, however, the project has been under serious consideration...
Captain Charles M. Fuller, of Boston, gave last night, in the Living Room of the Union, an illustrated lecture on "The Panama Canal." The lecturer outlined the history of the Isthmian canal project, pointing out the various routes that have been suggested and comparing the Panama route with that of Nicaragua. He explained the work that has already been done on both canals and showed the engineering problems that beset their construction. Captain Fuller also described the scenery of the country and the character and life of its inhabitants, He dwelt particularly on the towns along the routes of canals...
...have been invited by the President and Fellows of Harvard College to witness the opening exercises of a new institution connected with our University--the Germanic Museum. The beginnings of our enterprise date back some ten years. The project of a Germanic Museum had its inception in the growing conviction on the part of the instructors in the department of German, that their true function was not merely to teach the German language, or even German literature, but to give our students a true conception of what Germany stands for in modern civilization, what her ideals have been, what...
...since that time has devoted himself largely to a comparative study of life in India and America. He is one of the best known of Asiatic scholars who have come to this country in recent years, and has the support of many men of prominence in the religious project to which he is devoting his life...