Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There has recently been revived among influential alumni the project for the construction of a boulevard from the Charles River Road to Quincy square by way of De Wolf street, thus forming a connecting link between the Parkway and the University grounds. Such a scheme has been talked of for many years, but only assumed definite shape in 1902, when a committee of alumni was formed to consider the matter. Plans were drawn and approved by the Cambridge Board of Survey, but the City Government refused to consider the matter on the ground of expense. At present, the Cambridge Park...
...Corporation, work now being done in keeping track of its alumni will be turned over to this new officer, and with it all allowances for salaries, clerk-hire, and expenses now made by the University for those purposes. This means that the University not only fully approves of the scheme, but gives valuable financial support and assures an easy approach to official sources of information...
...large bodies of students without losing the valuable element of close personal relations with the instructors. In addition to the student laboratories, each wing contains special laboratories, each wing contains special laboratories provided for the teaching force of the department--for it is an essential point in the general scheme of education here represented that each instructor shall devote part of the day to his own private scientific investigation and shall thus come to his classes with the enthusiasm of a worker as well as the authority of a teacher--and for the research work of advanced students devoting themselves...
...alumni of the University will soon have permanent headquarters in Boston. The scheme was authorized in a general way when the alumni association adopted a new constitution last Commencement. The details, however, were left to the association's Board of Directors, and this board at a meeting last October voted to have a committee of five take charge of the project. This committee will report to the Board of Directors next Wednesday evening. In this report, which is practically sure of adoption, the committee recommends that the headquarters be established at 50 State street, Boston, in the building used...
...Amour Cache" is said to be a translation from the French poets: it is remarkably clear. There is merit also in "Queen and Pilgrim," and "Ye Left Me by the Garden Walk." The editorial paragraphs repeat the view expressed in the leading article, and state objections to the new scheme of charges for tuition. The book-reviews are sensible and helpful...