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Dates: during 1910-1919
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William Watson Goodwin '51, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, emeritus, did at his home, 5 Follen street, last night of heart trouble from which he had been confined to his bed during the last week. He was 81 years of age and is survived by his wife...
...same meeting of the President and Fellows the following gifts were also received and gratefully accepted: an anonymous gift of $5,000 to establish the Lawrence Carteret Fenno Memorial Free Bed Fund in the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital; a gift of $1,250 from Alfred T. White, h.'90, for immediate use in the department of Social Ethics; securities amounting to $28,000 from Mrs. J. K. Paine to establish the John Knowles Paine Fellowship in Music; twenty-four thousand dollars from the estate of Mrs. Caroline M. Barnard on account of her residuary bequest; from the estate...
First the effect of forests upon rainfall is to be considered. They cause the presence of a greater total amount of moisture in the air and they cool the air, thereby facilitating its precipitation, while its bed of humus will act like a sponge and absorb the percolation...
...greater part of the second story, providing ample quarters for large dinners and meetings. Behind it there will be a library and a private dining room. The rest of the space will be devoted to sleeping and bath rooms. In all, the clubhouse will probably contain about forty-five bed-chambers. In the basement will be a swimming pool, and in an ell outside the building, four squash courts...
Borings are being made in the bed of the Charles River near Boylston street, by the Metropolitan Park Commission, for the purpose of ascertaining what materials will be needed for the foundation of the new Stadium bridge which it is hoped will soon replace the present wooden structure. In this way a fairly accurate estimate of the cost of the new bridge can be made...