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...logic of this precaution is elusive, but its inconvenience is inescapable. The residents of the northwest corner of the Yard are forced to detour, and like all detours the one which they adopt is rough going. It lies through the shrubbery between Lionel and Harvard. The partially secluded character of this corner and a somewhat diffident view of human nature may be the explanation of this locking of the twelfth gate, but such reasoning surely is not well-grounded or if so its application elsewhere is owed to consistency. "What boots it at one gate to make defense...
...Detour on Memorial Drive...
Owing to raising the grade of Memorial Drive at the new Western Avenue Bridge, Memorial Drive will be closed to traffic from Western Avenue to River Street and cars going from Cambridge to Boston will detour at Hingham Street, while cars coming from Boston to Cambridge will detour at River Street...
...innovation in the traffic regulations as announced last night will be the closing of Memorial Drive to automobile traffic between Western Avenue and River Street. The detour was made necessary because of the construction work now going on at the new Western Avenue Bridge, where the grade of the road is being raised to the level of the new bridge. On Saturday, all cars going towards Boston will detour at Hingham Street, while cars coming from Boston will detour at River Street...
Lazybones. Owen Davis has permitted this "chronicle of a country town" to be billed as his best play. He seems to have underestimated The Detour and Icebound and to have shown unwarranted overconfidence in the present cast...