Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of this movement proves that the effects of war propaganda have died out in the educated classes. Now that the number of exchanged students has reached an appreciable size, there are not sufficient funds to increase the fellowships and scholarships to the point that is necessary if the project is to progress. If the present tendency of giving money to educational institutions were given a broader scope, and extended to this field of intercourse with foreign students, a more equitable basis of relations between the United States and Germany could be completely realized. There would be a sounder mutual...
...details regarding the working out of the proposed social scheme. Mr. Greenough's mention of a "high table" in the dining hall for the resident masters and tutors, and of a separate common room for the same officials presents a jarring note in the utopian outline of the Harkness project...
With Mrs. Bacon's gift, the $200,000 project for a group of new buildings at Red Top gets well under way. Sufficient funds to build quarters for the University team have already been received, and this building is to be completed before June this year. New Freshman quarters, coaches' and doctors' accommodations, and a dining hall will be constructed as soon as the necessary funds are available...
...again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request that the ten most northerly states of Mexico be recognized as having seceded from the Mexican Union, and as constituting the Republica Mexicana de Obregon...
Wells. Said Mr. Wells : "I can imagine nothing more amusing and exciting than to study your marvelous organization [but] our only paymaster ought to be the reader. . . . The writer . . . classes himself . . . with the teachers and the priests and the prophets. . . . Apart from that your project is most attractive...