Word: commonwealth
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Education 3bhf., Secondary Education: Public High Schools, Endowed and Private Schools, will be given in the second half-year on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 1.30 P. M., by Mr. William Orr (Deputy Commissioner of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and Asst. Professor H. W. Holmes...
...Metropolitan Park speedway two motor entrances to Soldiers Field, one near the University boathouse and the other near the University boathouse and the other near the baseball grounds. With this arrangement motor parties can approach the field by way of the parkway on the Boston side, easily reached through Commonwealth and Brighton avenues, and will not inconvenience the pedestrians on Boylston and North Harvard streets. It will also be much easier in getting away by means of the parkway. In conjunction with the new subway and the proposed Stadium bridge this should greatly facilitate access to all big games...
President Lowell in reply said that he did not think the first bill would be countenanced, since it would discriminate between Harvard and other educational institutions in the same city. As to the second bill he agreed that if the University were a burden the Commonwealth should share it with the city, but this was disproved by the fact that President Maclaurin of Technology had received petitions from Cambridge citizens asking that the Institute settle here. They ask this in order to increase property values in the city...
...bill authorizes the Metropolitan Park Commission or any town, city or other public body so authorized by the Commonwealth, to construct at any time hereafter drawless bridges across the Charles River connecting River street in Cambridge and Cambridge street in Brighton, and at any other points upon the river. The clearances must be at least twelve feet above the ordinary level of water in the basin over the main ship channel. The construction of piers and other obstructions to the flow of the river are to be subject to the approval of the Secretary...
...speakers, candidates for the Degrees of A.B., S.B. (Harvard College), S.B. (Lawrence Scientific School), A.M., S.M., M.C.E., M.M.E., M.E.E., M.E., Met.E., M.Arch., M.L.A., M.F., Ph.D., S.D., B.A.S., D.M.D., M.D., LL.B., S.T.B., the President, Fellows of the Corporation, the Honorable and Reverend the Board of Overseers, the Governor of the Commonwealth, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Commonwealth, the Governor's military staff, Deans of the Faculties, two by two, as follows: Harvard College, Lawrence Scientific School, Graduate School of Business Administration, Graduate School of Applied Science, Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dental School, Medical School, Law School...