Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...claims that the new system is perfect. It is an attempt to construct a positive system of education upon definite principles, and a system that is well fitted to the traditions of Harvard College because it leaves the initiative with the student himself. The essence of the system is that it holds up before a student a positive standard of education, and the setting up of that standard alone is of inestimable value. So long as he is told that any sixteen courses are, in the opinion of the college authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural that...