Word: project
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan for the restoration of a costume eminently that of scholars, and in perfect accord with academic exercise. This inactivity on the one hand and indifference on the other having resulted in the abandonment of the project last year, it now remains for the Senior class of this year to decide whether they will awaken to a lively sense of the proprieties of the case, and by adopting the cap and gown revive a custom as beautiful as it is old, or by following in the path which...
WRITING for the College papers is often a difficult task, as subjects of general interest are not always to be found. This difficulty is usually surmounted by the discovery of some cause for complaint, or else by the suggestion of some great project which is recommended to the reader as most worthy to be carried...
...told that if success in this project crown the efforts of Harvard men, "a meed of praise would be awarded them greater even than they would obtain were they to bear off the honors at the next Saratoga contest." Here, then, is an opportunity for Harvard to distinguish herself! With what pride should we say to the victors at Saratoga: "You have won the race, but we have supplied mental nourishment for our Wellesley sisters...
...This project of erecting class windows is one in which great interest ought to be felt; but it is doubtful if a general interest in the subject will ever be awakened before a window is actually placed in the hall, which shall act as an example for others to follow. If this work is to be undertaken by a class in college, there is no one better able to take the initiatory steps, nor one by which it could be better done, than by the class...
...reasons for setting forth this project at the present time, which to some may seem to be unnecessarily early, are as follows: In the first place it is well known that "great bodies move slowly," and as this is an undertaking which requires considerable time to get under way, and still further time for completion, it is well, in such a matter, to take time by the forelock. In the second place, although Juniors have had frequent calls for contributions made upon them during the past month, still at present they are less subject to these demands than at other...