Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California Oxford does not call itself a "university," that term having assumed a peculiar connotation in the U. S. It calls itself Claremont Colleges. Lately the Harvard Alumni Bulletin set forth the aims and status of Claremont Colleges, an educational project unique in interest and possibilities. Harvard's interest was intimate; graduates of hers have helped make Claremont history for 5 years...
What gives the project its touch of genius is the tender-hearted stipulation that each year the equivalent of $2,000,000 will be given away in lotteries to lucky bondholders. The Bolsheviki crudely killed the capitalists; the French socialists propose to tax their moneyed classes unmercifully; Pangalos gives the Greek tax-payer a mathematical chance. In spite of the snipping of notes, the snapping of jaws will be lessened by the hope of luck...
...move for a national education department has experienced opposition from an unexpected source. Professor Otis of City College criticises the project as a disguised attempt to militarize schools and colleges. And in a talk to foreign students at Columbia University the New York educator sounds the historic cry of states rights...
...years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
...students who intend to avail themselves of the offer of the Colonial Club should leave their names with the doorman or the newsstand at the Union. If sufficient interest is shown in the project it is probable that the Union will organize tournaments in bowling such as have previously been held in squash and billiards...