Word: boas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is now on exhibition in the Library of the School of Landscape Architecture, Robinson Hall, a set of Plan prepared by William Lyman Phillips '07 M.L.A. '10, recently landscape architec for the Isthmian Canal Commission, for the laying out of the new town of Bal boa, Panama. These plans will remain open to inspection by members of the University and their friends through Saturday. Visitors will be admitted from 9 to 5 o'clock, except on Saturday when the exhibition will close at 4 o'clock...
...some of the more obvious and familiar jests, like those concerning baked beans and squirrels with unfinished tails had been omitted; but this would only be because the merits of the old wit had been dimmed by the new. The thoughts that flow like the Charles River, the feather boa with which Boston can see nothing the matter because "It's the same that she's always worn," "the Unitarian who cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars...