Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elimination of the building at 68 Mt. Auburn Street as unsuitable for the budget allotment. Although the space requirements are adequately fulfilled by this building, the costs of adapting it to commuter needs would more than exceed the amount which the Committee has fixed upon for the project. In addition to the costs of painting, papering, and refurnishing the house, it would be necessary to tear down a number of partitions, as the bottom floor has a total of six rooms...
...University's stand upon the question has not yet been announced but depends largely upon the returns from the commuter questionnaires and the interest shown in the new project...
...Adams, Winthrop, and Eliot subscribed tentatively, remembering that the awards for any winning squad such as football or squash would amount to approximately thirty dollars, and that, since expenditure is directly proportionate to glory, for any House to win more than two championships would be financially disustrous. But the project went down to defeat because of the insolvency of Dunster and the non-cooperation of Leverett...
...Eric M. Lindsay and Dr. Freeman D. Miller '30, of the Harvard Observatory, have been counting stars at the rate of 5,000 each day and have now completed almost half their task of classifying the estimated 10,000,000 stars of the thirteenth magnitude and above. The whole project is under the direction of Bartholomeus J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
Eight hundred questionnaires were distributed yesterday to the commuting students of Harvard in an effort to find out their attitude toward the proposed Commuters' House and what financial support they will be able to give the project. The Investigation Committee appointed by Brooks House believes that if a large majority of the commuters are able to contribute ten dollars each, it will be possible to finance the new headquarters successfully with little or no help from other sources...