Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With only today and tomorrow remaining before the football team leaves Boston, practice has assumed the most intensive form possible without resorting to a real scrimmage. To facilitate practice, the entire squad moved out to the Commonwealth Armory, where an enclosed surface 225 feet by 175 feet gave ample room for drill. Yesterday the men ran through their second practice there and worked the same points which have busied them since practice was resumed after the Yale game. In addition, the drill was lengthened out to permit the coaches to show the two teams all they know about characteristic Oregon...
...these prizes. James Bowdoin, graduated from the University in 1745. He was a member from 1757 to 1774 of His Majesty's Council for the Province, and was active there as an opponent of the ministry. He was president of the convention which framed the Constitution of the Commonwealth in 1779 80, and was Governor of Massachusetts from 1785 to 1787. Governor Rowdoin bequeathed 400 pounds, the interest which was to be used for these prizes. In 1901 George S. Rowdoin of New York give $15.000 to be added to the practice of the formers bequest...
...order to reach the Stadium from Boston the following route is the best: From Commonwealth avenue or Beacon street drive to Governor's Square, then take Commonwealth avenue and continue straight down Brighton avenue to Everett street, which runs to the Metropoliton Park Speedway back of the Stadium...
Taxicabs and other cars intending to drop passengers and return will find the best route by going out Commonwealth avenue, crossing over the Cottage Farm Bridge and following the Charles River Road Parkway. They may drop their passengers and turn around to return at the Weld Boat Club at the Anderson Bridge...
...this activity for Harvard there was a motive, so strong that, in spite of doctors' orders, he made trips to Cambridge to speak before Memorial Day gatherings and each new Freshman class. The triumph of this motive made him a master financier and the foremost private citizen of the Commonwealth. He desired "men who could be trusted." What could not be done if we worked entirely with trustworthy men? Only with such did he deal; and in so far as he could, he labored that all Harvard men should "remain within the truth." In his address to the Class...