Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverand James Edward Freeman, bishop of Washington, oversees these diocesan works. He is a great strapping man, and a good liver. Men like him. They write him letters after he speaks his resonant lyricism over the radio. They give him money when he asks for it. The Washington Cathedral project has taken renewed vigor since his Episcopal resumption in 1923. Before that he was, for two years, rector of Epiphany Church in Washington; before that, for 11 years, rector of St. Marks Church in Minneapolis. While he was in Minneapolis he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Western Texas. He declined...
...project for a new privately owned dormitory to rise on the corner of Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe Streets has completely collapsed, according to information recently obtained from the promoters of the scheme. Plans for the structure, which was to replace the frame houses now standing opposite St. Paul's Catholic Church on DeWolfe Street, were announced last April, and it was understood at that time that the construction work would begin within a few months...
...this fall into the progress of the scheme have revealed the fact that the original promoters had bought up considerable land--in Cambridge and nearby cities with a view to extensive real estate development work. The proposed private dormitory on DeWolfe Street flanking Westmorly Hall was part of this project. The land was purchased by what are commonly known as shoe string methods, however, and the mortgages which were taken out to finance the promoters scheme, have been fore closed. The property has now passed into other hands and the dormitory project has been definitely abandoned...
...until two actual football teams composed of Princeton and Harvard graduates actually meet in the Yankee Stadium will the report of the game scheduled for October 30 be more than half-believed. To arrange the teams is a difficult project for even C. C. Pyle. If played, the game will doubtless be a financial success, and will attract wide publicity. It will do nothing, however, toward "burying the hatchet" between Princeton and Harvard. For the hatchet has been buried ever since the break eleven months ago, and the resumption of athletic relations must await the time when a Princeton-Harvard...
Security. With the idea of mak-ing the world safe to disarm, the disarmament committee of the assembly unanimously approved the French project of empowering the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, while arranging for a general conference on limitation and reduction of arms, to study means of making arbitration compulsory and of instituting a graduate system of security among Nations (TIME, Sept...