Word: projects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This project has occasioned considerable comment in many of the New York papers. The N. Y. Times says in regard to the financial aid required: "If local pride still counts for anything with the rich men of New York, substantial benefactions from some who are not specially distinguished as patrons of education may be expected," and their assistance together with the support which will undoubtedly be forthcoming from those especially interested, will make the difficulty of raising an endowment of $4,000,000 much less than was at first expected. This subject is also discussed in the N. Y. Post...
...else they could not have acquiesced in a decision that would confine base-ball and foot-ball to Jarvis field. If the Physical Laboratory is to be built on Holmes field, all who have the true interests of the university at heart will use their influence in forwarding the project of the new athletic grounds...
...former money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best somewhat questionable, and we hope that the higher price has not been determined upon simply because the managers think they can get it. They should remember with what disfavor the project of charging extra prices was regarded last spring in the base-ball games. We should be sorry to observe any attempt at extortion in a college organization whose chief end should never be to make money, or to have it lay itself open to the suspicion of such a design...
...been made public. The design is large and comprehensive, and it is expected that the result will be the foundation of a sectarian university "that shall equal Yale and Harvard in equipments, finish and range of studies, while it shall surpass them in thoroughness and depth." Such is the project now under consideration. Its chief promoter, with, it is understood, the consent and encouragement of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, is Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, one of the youngest, most brilliant and most energetic of American Catholic bishops...
...said that the project of a new bridge over the Charles river, between Boston and Cambridge, will probably not be carried out this year, owing to economical reasons...