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...Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted permission to the University on Tuesday afternoon, to build a tunnel under the city streets for the purpose of supplying the Widener Library. Sever Hall, and other buildings in the Yard with steam heat generated at the Boston Elevated Power House. The tunnel will run from the Power House between Smith and Gore Halls to Mill street, and thence up Holyoke street to Holyoke place. From Holyoke place it will cross Mt. Auburn street and continue up Linden street till it enters the Yard at the southwest corner of the Library...
...Board of Aldermen of the City of Cambridge will today vote finally on the project of a tunnel to be run from the Boston Elevated power house on the Charles River parkway to the College Yard. At the meeting on last Tuesday, the plan was discussed pro and con and it was decided to refer the matter to the Highway Commission. During the past week this body has gone over the draft and plans of the enterprise and the Board of Aldermen will pass on it finally this evening...
...question of building a tunnel from the Boston Elevated power station through to the Yard for the purpose of carrying heat to the College buildings will be definitely decided before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, January 13. The project was discussed at length before the board at its last meeting and every phase of the question gone over preparatory to its settlement...
...Board of Aldermen has referred the petition of the University to construct a tunnel from the Freshman dormitories to the Yard back to the Committee on Highways for the City of Cambridge. The committee will pass upon the petition again some time this week and it will probably come up before the Board of Aldermen for reconsideration next Tuesday evening...
...meeting of the Cambridge board of aldermen and the city council held during the recess, it was voted to close Amherst street and several of the other streets which cross the proposed location of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new buildings. By this action the last objection to that site was removed, and it is now practically certain Technology will move to the land fronting the Charles river immediately below Harvard Bridge...