Word: drain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Work will be begun today on a new system for draining Soldiers Field, for which a plan by Professor H. J. Hughes has recently been accepted by the Athletic Committee. During the winter about a dozen catch basins will be built to drain the surface water. Below these will be driven wooden piles to prevent the basins from sinking into the soft ground. A series of small, underground porous tiles will connect the large pipes already installed and leading directly into the Charles River...
...land on Holmes Field is better adapted for a rink than that nearer the river, as the water will not drain off so quickly, and the surrounding buildings protect the field from exposure...
...CRIMSON'S annual baseball victory over the Lampoons will take place on Holmes Field this afternoon, commencing at four o'clock. As neither team has practiced, it is difficult to predict the score or estimate the fatalities. The large drain on CRIMSON material made by the University nine, and the recent increase of the Lampoon's board may make it a little difficult for the CRIMSON to maintain its hitherto unbroken succession of victories, but the despairing efforts of the Lampoons to obtain graduate players seem to show a weaker aggregation than usual. Last year the Lampoons were overwhelmingly defeated...
...Promoters of the plan intend to make every effort to solve the question of objectionable drainage in the river, and have competent engineering authority that the sewers which now drain into the river can be connected with the Metropolitan system at a small expense...