Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...positions of the crews are as follows, beginning from the Beacon street wall: First race--1, Fifth Weld; 2, Fourth Newell; 3, Fourth Weld; 4, Third Weld; 5, Third Newell. Second race--1, Second Weld; 2, Second Newell; 3, First Newell; 4, First Weld. The officials for the races are: Referee, G. Mumford '87; timekeepers, H. Bancroft '98 and A. Stevens '97; judges at finish, R. F. Manning '04 and H. R. Sedgwick...
...Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health, it was proposed to build a dam near Craigie Bridge. That the recommendation of the joint board were not then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection grew out of the proposal to pay for the dam by filling in the basin in he rear of their houses so as to create land on which a new row of houses could be built. The plan now put forward does not contain this obviously objectionable feature...
...present projects is not open to a single objection that was seriously urged against the plan of 1894. In that year it was argued before the Earbor and Land commission, by eminent counsel who were retained to prevent the erection of new houses back of Beacon street, that any stopping of the ebb of the tide from the Charles River Basin twice daily would injure certain channels of the harbor, but in opposition to this contention several of the most eminent engineers of the state have expressed the opinion that the tidal scour theory has no application to the conditions...
...Copeland's Life of Edwin Booth, to be published in the Beacon Biographies series, there will be a number of hitherto unpublished letters from Booth to Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich who was one of his life long friends...
...Harvard men are assisting in industrial and evangelistic work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. Fifteen men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill where from 75 to 100 Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back to China...