Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Trustees of New York's great cathedral met in the Synod House and made plans for the completion of the vast sanctuary. The project was started over 50 years ago by Bishop Horatio Potter. The cornerstone was laid in 1892. During the ensuing decade and a half the chancel and seven chapels were dedicated. In 1911-14 the foundations of the tremendous nave were laid, reminding one of the appeal of the Roman Catholic Cardinal to the mediaeval churchmen of Seville: " Let us lay here the foundations of such a cathedral that men will say we were...
Perhaps the greatest piece of constructive work initiated by the Union this year was the development of a series of vocational talks with the purpose of helping undergraduates to choose their careers intelligently. Before the project was finally put in motion, however, its entire management was taken over by the University authorities, within whose province it more naturally falls...
...Rogers", President Eliot continued, "had a distinct prophetic vision of the part which the new school of applied science was to play in American democracy. Mrs. Rogers, through her large field of acquaintances in Boston, was able to bring just the right people together to support the project...
...aggressive Mr. Wannamaker, President of the American Cotton Association, has again launched his favorite project-to withhold the cotton crop until it reaches a price level where farmers can make what he calls "a legitimate profit." This suggestion is extraordinary enough, coming as it does in this day of practically 30-cent cotton. But the means by which it is to be realized are more extraordinary still. Mr. Wannamaker's "plan" is to have individuals, clubs and corporations buy many bales of cotton, store them in warehouses, and borrow on the warehouse receipts at banks for a period...
...orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...