Word: project
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...competitive Glee Club concert in New York this spring now seems assured. Though Cornell, Yale, and Princeton have all dropped out because of Faculty restrictions or lack of time to properly rehearse the music, the remaining colleges have decided to go ahead with the project. It was thought for a time that without the support of the alumni of Yale and Princeton, the affair could not be made a financial success. But after a conference in Boston on Saturday, it was decided that the risk of monetary loss was far too small to warrant abandoning this year's meet...
...position in the matter was plainly stated in his communication yesterday, and this is the position that he has maintained throughout. The graduates are at perfect liberty to make an unofficial and voluntary campaign for the gymnasium, and this is only due to the undergraduates who have supported the project so well, on the understanding that the work would be later taken up by the graduates. It is hard to tell how soon such a campaign would be successful in the raising of the entire sum, but it is certainly evident that a gymnasium is needed, and must eventually...
...opportunity afforded by the Speakers' Club of discussing and gaining intimate knowledge of the issues of today is in line with this modernist movement. And the project begins auspiciously with an address by Professor Taft, who has not only been in the current of things but has guided its trend. He comes to plead the necessity of the increase of civic interest among students. The authority of so eminent a jurist, if not the eagerness of undergraduates, should give him a numerous and well-disposed audience...
...committee from each class will be appointed tomorrow to complete the collection of the overdue gymnasium pledges. Since the graduates have shown their willingness to contribute to the new gymnasium and the ultimate success of the project has been assured, the work of collection among the undergraduates will be immediately concluded. A large part of the pledges still remain unpaid. The following men will be in charge of the appointment of the subcommittees: Senior Supervising Chairman, J. Wentworth. Junior Committee--J. Garland (chairman), C. S. Damon, T. E. Murphy, S. B. Pennock. Sophomore Committee--R. H. Stiles (chairman...
...graduates for the necessary funds. Undergraduate committees have been at work for over a year obtaining pledges and collecting subscriptions from the students so that when the time came to approach the graduates, they could show proof of the interest which the members of the University feel in the project...