Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet an Oxford and Cambridge combination in England next summer received added impetus when the Harvard Athletic Committee voted, at a meeting last night, to look with favor on the plan. Definite arrangements will be deferred until the Committee has the opinion of the Yale authorities on the project...
...setting. They were believed never to have met; but when the young general entered, Dr. Sun rose dramatically to his feet, scanned carefully the face of Chiang Kaishek, and exclaimed: "Ah! Here is the second Sun Yatsen. He shall one day take my place! . . . Explain your project, Oh young and rising...
...Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then of receiving aid from any other Great Power for his project of conquering China in the name of Nationalism, or "China for the Chinese...
...project is extremely worthy: Oxford men will have the opportunity of seeing Canada from a point of view much different from that of the usual tourist; the Canadians will be aided in the great harvest--and they may come to think of a university as capable of producing something more than charming idlers; and the very delicate bonds between the two countries will be cemented by this personal embassy. International politics can do no more...
...speedily committed to a private hospital. What, for example, could even semi-encyclopaedic newsgatherers make of "the purification of colloids by electro-dialysis," the feat which Guggenheim money will aid Dr. Richard Bradfield, soil professor at the University of Missouri to accomplish? Dr. William Henry Eyster's project, at the University of Maine, to study "the physiology of chloroplastid pigments," was equally inscrutable. And why should Dr. Ralph Erskine Cleland of Goucher College be given money to pry into "the chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose [Oenothera]"! What services would be rendered mankind by Dr. Frederick Charles...