Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Legislature failed, however, to make provision for the changes in the grades of Boylston street in Cambridge and North Harvard street in Boston, necessary in connection with the building of the bridge. Negotiations are in progress, however, with the city authorities to obtain their consent to the construction of the bridge and their agreement to build the approaches. As the approaches are comparatively inexpensive, in comparison with the cost of the bridge itself, it is thought that the cities will not delay the project by refusing to do this small part. It is understood that the cities are not asked...
...build either one of these approaches would require comparatively a small amount of wall construction, as at the beginning of the approaches they would be graded to meet existing park roads. Some rough wall probably would be necessary near the river, and the rest of the work would be filling...
...country their only idea of college life--and his picture presented only an exaggeration of its worst side. That there is a certain amount of drinking and vice among undergraduates can not be denied. The millenium has not yet arrived. To those who are working faithfully and seriously to build up their own character and the reputation of their alma mater, whether it be Prineton or Yale or Harvard, a fair criticism is never unwelcome. Mere mud, on the contrary, is of all things discouraging. Yet the very possibility of the spreading of such exaggerations, and the harm they...
...profit was spent on the tennis team. Dinners to victorious Freshman teams and the liberal use of taxicabs may possibly be justifiable, but tennis money should not go for such purposes with the courts in their present condition. Why not, therefore, use part of the $1200 to build more courts? Why not use the remainder to cover the courts with clay and thus eliminate the prevalent sand storms? No expenditure would be of equal advantage to the largest athletic group in the University...
...well-known firm of Peabody & Stearns, architects, Boston, was introduced to speak on "Relations of the Architect and the Engineer." He stated that beauty is found in practically all of the moving structures of engineering, but it is usually the reverse in stationary structures. Many engineers build simply for utility without regard to looks. A cure for this is co-operation with architects, which are not, as many engineers imagine, simply employed to adorn buildings...