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After 12 o'clock noon, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, will be closed to automobile traffic as far as Western Avenue, Brighton. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Fields Cars coming from Watertown and Waltham should come via North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Field...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming through Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue about 200, yards from Gate No. 5. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWelfe Square on the Parkway, about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...
...persons parking automobiles either in the private parking field or the Brighton playground off Western Avenue there will be a special entrance through the wire fence directly into Soldiers Field. Persons parking cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter either through the pedestrian gate at the southwest corner of Soldiers Field or through the gate opposite the Newell Boat House on the northwest side of the field...
...first of these tracts was given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College in 1870 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59 and by members of his family. The first tract contained about 70 acres and was located in the meadow land on the Brighton side of the Charles River...
...University athletic fields on the Brighton side of the Charles River finally assumed their present proportions nearly 35 years ago when Major Henry Lee Higginson '82 gave the College 31 acres on North Harvard Street adjoining the land previously donated to the College. He named his gift "The Soldiers Field," the name by which the entire athletic tract is now known...