Word: bays
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard party of the intercollegiate geological excursion to Westfield, Mass., will take the 4.19 train on the Boston and Albany railroad, at Trinity Place (Back Bay), this afternoon. Mileage tickets will be provided. The party will reach Westfield at 7.07, and stop at the Hotel Bismarck. The return will be Saturday evening, on the train due in Boston...
August 9--Run to Booth Bay...
...pottery vessel, probably between four and five hundred years old, has just been presented to the Peabody Museum by Clarence B. Moore '73, of Philadelphia, a man prominent in archaeological research. The vessel, which is carefully modelled and chased, was found in an aboriginal cemetery near Point Washington, Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Under it was a skull, with the tip of the chin just projecting through a break in the vessel. The skull, showing the receding forehead of the North American Indian, is included in the gift...
...give to Boston a beautiful water park, a feature of attractiveness superior to anything of its kind to be found on the American Continent. Such a park, which will rival the finest water park of Europe, the famous Alster Basin of Hamburg, can be laid out in the Back Bay at a comparatively little expense...
...intended in the new plan to change the salt basin of the Back Bay into a fresh water pond. Instead of an old style dam of rigid construction, the new plan suggests the erection of a folding or collapsible dam similar to dams which have been successfully operated in the Ohio River and the River Thames in England. The folding dams constructed by the United States Government in the Ohio are so arranged that by simple mechanism the whole structure can be laid flat below the level of the lower sill, so that ice can pass out and the water...