Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from the steps of Holworthy at 7.30 o'clock, immediately after the parade had formed. Led by the Pierian band, the march to the field was then started. About eight hundred men, mostly with torches and sashes, were in line as the procession moved from the Johnston Gate down Boylston street. In the Stadium several formations were tired, ending finally in a gigantic "H" of torches, covering nearly the whole gridiron. The fireworks, while hardly sufficient to make a good showing in so large a space, added to the beauty of the scene. West of the Stadium the bonfire...
...game no vehicles will be allowed on Boylston or North Harvard streets from Mt. Auburn street in Cambridge to Western avenue in Brighton beween the hours of 12 M. and 5 P. M. Between these hours, the streets both in Cambridge and Brighton, which lead to Soldiers Field will be closed to all vehicles...
There will be a special entrance on the Charles River Parkway, opposite the University Boathouse, for persons coming to the game in carriages. The parkway can be reached only on the Brighton side from Western avenue, via Everett street, as Boylston street and North Harvard street will be closed. Carriages may stand in the parkway during the game...
...because its meaning is unmistakable and because it recognizes ridicule as the best medicine to cure abuses. In this case the abuse seems to be in the brutality of the game of football, a point which occurs as often and even more pointedly than does the danger of the Boylston Street bridge. Apparently in the mind of the average layman the new rules have not been entirely successful in this respect at least...
...management of the Boston Elevated Railway Company expects to resume street-car service on the Boylston street bridge in Boston this morning, provided that the necessary permission to use the bridge shall have been granted by the appropriate public authorities...