Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew will have a two mile course. The dream of University rowing men for half a century will be realized if a compromise bill which will be introduced into the Massachusetts State Senate this afternoon is passed. For the first time in over 100 years three or more crews will be able to start above the Weld Boat House and race side by side to the end of the river...
...arched Harvard, West Boston, and Larz Anderson bridges came in time and this year the Western Avenue and River Street bridges were replaced by bridges of the arched variety. The only remaining obstacle to longer races was the Cottage Farm bridge, which the present bill would change...
...bill which will be introduced this afternoon provides for a railroad and a highway bridge, both with six 50-foot openings which are in line with each other. The bill is a compromise between the warring factions and has been agreed to by all the interested parties...
Among the petitioners for the bill are C. F. Adams '88, treasurer of the University; J. J. Storrow '85, captain of the winning '85 crew; James Lawrence '01, Chief Marshal of the class of 1901; John Richardson '06, chairman of the University Rowing Committee, and other prominent graduates...
...particularly annoying knot without snarling the string at the other end. For years the Cottage Farm Bridge and the railroad bridge beside it have been a thorn in the flesh of rowers on the Charles. They form a barrier to be passed only with great caution. Now, by a bill pending in the legislature, each of the bridges is expected to give way to a new structure with six fifty-foot spans, and thus to clear the river for rowing from Anderson Bridge to the Basin...