Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted permission to the University on Tuesday afternoon, to build a tunnel under the city streets for the purpose of supplying the Widener Library. Sever Hall, and other buildings in the Yard with steam heat generated at the Boston Elevated Power House. The tunnel will run from the Power House between Smith and Gore Halls to Mill street, and thence up Holyoke street to Holyoke place. From Holyoke place it will cross Mt. Auburn street and continue up Linden street till it enters the Yard at the southwest corner of the Library...
Although Princeton has no institution which can in any way be compared to the Harvard Union, it is planning to build a University Club along similar lines. At present it is suggested to have the membership open to all members of the university and faculty. All the offices of extra-curriculum activities will be centered here, and possibly a small theatre will be attached. A grill room, library, and all the appurtenances of a club will be included...
...that will ever be played on the old field. The wooden stands will remain until next winter at least, in case work on the Bowl should be delayed. It is probable that all the minor games next fall will be played on the old field. It is planned to build the new double-decked covered baseball stand on the site of the present football stand...
During the remainder of the week, several winter sports were organized and calls for candidates made. The hockey rink is now absolutely assured as the Arena Centerfreeze Ice Company has taken out a permit to build such a rink. It will be the second largest in the country, second only to the Boston Arena, and will provide a skating surface of 200 by 35 feet, and a seating capacity of 3000. Hockey candidates have been called out, and a lively season seems assured...
Several of the most eminent educators and business men of the East have planned gradually to build up in Africa an institute, similar to the Hampton Institute in Virginia, and to put Mr. Cele in charge of it. Their belief is that the way to solve the negro problem is to give the negroes confidence and intelligence through work well done. This committee consists of: President A. Lawrence Lowell '77, President Faunce of Brown; Mr. F. Kelsey of the Yale Corporation and president of the Title Guarantee Trust Company of New York; Dr. Henry B. Frissell, president of the Hampton...