Word: project
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this committee it was agreed that the financial outlook is at present not propitious for a general canvass to obtain the $200,000 which will be needed; but is was felt that every member of the committee should be urged either personally or through friends to bring the project to the attention of persons who might be induced to contribute. Especially is to be remembered that, excepting Memorial Hall, all of the buildings erected at Harvard in our time have been given or bequeathed by individuals singly; men with means, who wish to build a monument either to themselves...
...project is eminently practical; it offers three positive and lasting advantages. The permanent court would have the machinery for settling disputes ready in advance. The second advantage is that the very existence of the court composed of the most eminent jurists of the Anglo-Saxon race and invested with the honor and authority of the two greatest nations of the age must powerfully affect the imagination of the people. Here are two advantages which the negative have not been able to deny. With the permanent court you cannot help getting them; without the court you cannot get them...
...graduate committee appointed to further the University Club project has finished its work for this year, and most excellent work it has been. By their energy and untiring enthusiasm they have brought the project into definite shape. The club has changed from a vague possibility into a probability, and almost into a certainty, and this has been done within a very few months. There is little doubt now that inside of a few years a University Club will be established at Harvard, and what has been a long-cherished ideal in the hearts of many graduates will have become...
...committee on the University Club project met yesterday afternoon at the office of Charles Francis Adams '88, in Boston. Henry E. Warner '82, as chairman of the sub-committee appointed at the last meeting to make inquiries as to a suitable site for the proposed club house, presented a report on the size and approximate cost of several sites. After considerable discussion it was decided that, in view of the present financial depression, it would be wise to wait a few months before attempting to raise the necessary two hundred thousand dollars by a general subscription. In the meantime...
...most important additions which has been made for some time is a course in Russian. For some years past the need for such a course has been felt. Twelve years ago it was decided to teach Russian, and the instructor was secured; but at the last moment the project fell through. With the lectures lately given by Prince Wolkonsky new interest was aroused, which has now taken this definite form...