Word: projects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to the club, Mr. Hayward says that there have been no definite financial arrangements made, but that he has secured the support of a large group of Chicago business men and thus feels sure that the project will be attended by success...
...foot clock on Memorial Hall and all clocks in the Yard may soon be electrified, it was learned yesterday from reliable sources. If the necessary money can be appropriated for this project, the controlling apparatus of the project, the controlling apparatus of the Appleton Chapel Clock will be used as a central plant to run all clocks in the Yard, including those in the offices in University Hall...
...abroad must disappear, for one may hear mere lectures delivered in French as well in Cambridge as in Paris. Educational critics have long attacked the self-consciousness of the American student abroad, and his unfortunate tendency to establish an exclusive colony of friends in a single pension. Such a project as the present one, which contemplates the enshrinement of this separatism in a luxurious setting, can scarcely seem will advised...
...miles and field events in feet was caused by the recent action of the I.C.4A. and the A.A.U. In March, 1932, the I.C.4A. voted to run the 1933 Intercollegiates on the metric system if the A.A.U. agreed to adopt the change. Last December the A.A.U. voted favorably on the project, the final decision being left to the athletic boards of the different colleges...
President Roosevelt, having served the banking situation with dispatch, concerns himself in the current Tennessee Valley project with matters quite as vast, but far less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...