Word: bay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, realizing that it must soon move from its crowded quarters in the heart of Boston, looked about for a new site and was much attracted by the Riverbank esplanade on the north side of the Back Bay Basin. No better location could be desired for a great institution like the Institute, and its buildings as planned would have made a noble frame for that side of the Embankment. But the trustees of Technology hesitated, knowing the determination that had been expressed by a few persons in Cambridge to persist until they succeeded...
...fact that Cambridge might have secured that institution, and thereby added directly to the taxable value of the land between the Riverbank and the Grand Junction Railroad, began to impress the intelligent business men of Cambridge. Nothing could be more desired than that the Cambridge side of the Back Bay Basin, on which millions of dollars have been spent, should be occupied by monumental buildings, worthy of the location and of the city. Here was the opportunity, when an institution of great reputation throughout the United States would erect such buildings, and thereby assure the future of that entire section...
...trip this summer will consist of a study of shore line changes along the Atlantic coast. Professor Johnson, accompanied by two assistants, will examine the more important shore line features from the Bay of Fundy to southern Florida, giving special attention to geologically recent changes in the forms of beaches and to supposed evidence of recent coastal subsidence. Lines of levels will be run between the ocean and lagoons, bays, etc., to ascertain the relative heights of high tides at different points on the irregular shores, in the belief that the data thus secured will throw light on the problem...
...Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht Club has announced the conditions for the race between the Harvard and Yale Yacht Clubs to be sailed from New London to Oyster Bay after the boat races next month. A prize is offered for the boat making the best elapsed time over the course. Boats of modern type whose racing measurement under the present rule is known will be raced with regular time allowance. Other boats will be raced with some handicap system, probably based on overall length. Prizes are offered in each class and second prizes for those classes where there are four or more...
...Delta west of Memorial, in which the statue of John Harvard stands, will be fenced in and decorated with Japanese lanterns and laurel, while bay and spruce trees will form the boxes, where the couples may sit in the open air and listen to the band concerts given between the dances, a new feature this year. Supper will be served continuously from 9 until 12 at tables strewn with flowers and arranged out of doors in the Delta. In short, this is a chance no Seniors who believe in fairies can afford to miss...