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...Charles River Basin Commission has advertised for bids on its contract for the dam which is to turn the Charles river into a freshwater basin unaffected by the tides. The dam will be built on the present site of Craigie bridge, and its total length will be 1300 feet, the width varying from 140 to 490 feet. It will consist of two masonry retaining walls on pole foundations, the space between them being filled with earth to a depth of from 15 to 50 feet. At the ends the height of the dam will be 21 feet above mean...
...consisted of shooting for the forwards and easy practice for the goalkeepers. Men for other positions will not be called out until the weather permits practice on the ice. A complete list of candidates and their positions, will be announced in a few days. A rink has been built in he curve of the Stadium on Soldiers Field instead of on Holmes Field as in previous years. This will be flooded as soon as the weather permits, and outdoor practice will then begin...
...been decided to erect permanent fire escapes on Sanders Theatre. they will be made of wrought iron and will be built into the walls in the same positions as the wooden steps which were erected for the performance of Hamlet. Owing to the unsatisfactory plans which were at first submitted, the fire escapes have not yet been put in position. The contract, however, calls for their completion by Friday...
...miles outside of St. Louis. The party will then proceed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they will spend a day at the important Jarvy Museum. From here they will go south to the large modern pueblo of Isleta, and the Laguna and the Acoma pueblos. The latter, built on a mesa 400 feet high, is in nearly the same condition that it was when Coronado found...
...inscriptions are as follows: "Stoughton Hall, Built by Harvard College, Aided by a State Lottery, 1805--Named in Honor of William Stoughton, who gave to Harvard College the first Stoughton Hall, 1698." "Holworthy Hall, Built with the Proceeds of a State Lottery, 1812--Named in Honor of an English Merchant, Sir Thomas Holworthy, who in 1681 gave *1000, the largest gift received by Harvard College during the Seventeenth Century...