Word: projects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What looms ahead? Last week as Mr. Morgan sat on the Second Dawes Committee, he was undoubtedly pondering a fiscal operation beside which the half-billion-dollar loan to France and England would seem picayune. This project is spoken of as "Commercializing" the German reparations debt. By this is meant (TIME, Oct. 29) that long term "reparations bonds" may be issued against the resources of the German State, sold to the public, and the money used to pay off at once Germany's debt to the Powers...
...informal opening yesterday of the first exhibit by the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art showed a restraint which should do much to ensure the success of the new project. By avoiding the sort of sensationalism which shrieks like a spoiled child for attention, those in charge have insured a tolerant attitude from the more conservative of their patrons without jeopardizing the interest of the more advanced...
...project develops from its present circumspect beginning the appearance of more radical productions is to be expected, but the continuance of the present wisdom of those in charge should certainly result in a corresponding development in the taste of its patrons. Certainly false felts are quelled and a satisfactory hope for the future aroused by the initial exhibit of this most recent addition to the complex of advantages that is Harvard...
...Crimson, dignified Harvard daily, printed an explanation to the effect that a mortgage on the Lampoon's building had been foreclosed by the University authorities, and that the building would become a dining hall in the Harkness project...
...President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results. It is true that a donor's foresight is never quite equal to contemporary professional judgment in achieving a desired project, and may sometimes unduly limit such an achievement. Whatever may be the result of this definitely stipulated gift to Yale, this educational experiment is one that will be watched with great interest...