Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth is to have a new chapel at a cost of $30,000, and a library at a cost of $50,000. The latter building is to be absolutely fire-proof and will have a capacity of 120,000 volumes. The project of building a law school has not yet been decided upon...
...would suggest that the club should write to the various colleges, and, if possible, make arrangements for some team matches. Meanwhile, if some recognized authority, like the National Rifle Association, or the Forest and Stream, or Spirit of the Times, would lend its assistance to help on the project, we think that the sport might be put on a firmer basis...
There will be no junior class dinner. The project has fallen through from lack of interest on the part of the class, though 44 out of the required 50 names were put down...
...faculty has blindly followed this ignis fatuus until it has led it into the swamp where it now finds itself. Little credit has resulted to the college from its efforts, undertaken, we believe, with the best motives, but lamentably misdirected and aimed at impracticable objects. We hope that the project of an inter-collegiate conference of undergraduates to meet at Columbia College the last of this week will but receive a new impetus from this failure of faculty interference. The Harvard faculty in common with some few others has persistently refused organized co-operation with the undergraduates in the reform...
President Eliot, we learn, wishes it to be understood that the faculty is far from giving up its project of the inter-collegiate regulation of athletics. The faculty, it is claimed, were chiefly influenced in reconsidering their recent action by the attitude of other colleges, which seemed to be generally unfavorable to the regulations as they stand. It will again make determined efforts to secure the passage of the regulations in a modified form, however, so that they will meet with the approval of enough colleges to give them binding force. Meanwhile the students, we presume, are expected to occupy...