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University 19, which is correspondingly situated in the north entry of University Hall to University 5 in the south entry, will be abandoned for recitation purposes and will be divided into offices for the Secretary of the Faculty and his assistants. Work will be begun on the room next week and it is expected that the offices will be ready for occupancy before Christmas. This remodelling has been necessitated by the large increase in work of the Committee on Admission of which Secretary J. G. Hart is chairman. The office made vacant in University 5 will afford a much needed...
Work on the Charles River dam, which was begun March 1, 1905, has been continued without interruption during the summer. All the concrete work is practically finished, and the sluices and small boat lock on the Cambridge side will be completed before the cold weather. The Boston marginal conduit, through which all overflow from the sewers on stormy days will be carried down to tide-water instead of into the basin, is as near completion as the rest of the work will permit. In the Broad and Lechmere canals and in the basin, about ninety per cent. of the piles...
...taking has recently been filed and work begun on the Boston embankment, extending from the Cambridge bridge along the Boston shore as far as the southerly side of the Back Bay fens. Construction work on section one of the embankment comprises 2700 linear feet of retaining wall and about the same length of earth embankment. The Commission will soon receive bids for the work on section two, which is located back of Beacon street. Along the wall, south of the Cambridge bridge, the esplanade will vary in width from 180 to 300 feet, and the portion in the rear...
...wish to give for philanthropic use. The clothing will be distributed to Tuskegee Institute, the Associated Charities of Boston and Cambridge, and similar institutions; the magazines will be placed in sailors' reading rooms; and the text-books will be reserved for the loan Text Book Library, which has been begun in Brooks House. Reference books are greatly needed for this collection...
Continuing the plan begun last year, student guides will be on duty in the reading room in Gore Hall from 9 to 5 o'clock every day except Sunday, when they will be on duty only in the afternoon. There are about 20 men this year, each of whom gives from one to four hours a week to the work. Every man has a free hour after his hour on duty so that in case he is called during the latter part of his period on duty his other work will not be interfered with. All these men have been...