Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mittens' proposal. Learning this Dr. A. A. Mitten telegraphed: "The apparent impossibility of there being a sufficiently unanimous accord of the convention in approval, prompts us now to request that the proposition ... be now withdrawn." Said B. of L. E. President Prenter: "Other plans preferable to the Mitten project will be brought before the convention...
...upper reaches of streams tributary to the Mississippi would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...
...CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary...
...signed cards which have so far been returned to the CRIMSON 85 came from members of the class of 1930. The present Sophomore and Junior classes combined have furnished only 30 supporters of the project, while the small remaining number is divided between the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From the cards that private dining rooms will receive little support if the University dining hall is ever erected. Less than five percent of the students who signified their willingness to eat in the dining hall would also pay an additional fee to have their meals...
Angell Lauds Project...