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...report for the year 1872-3 President Eliot says, "The gymnasium of the University is completely outgrown . . . it is not possible to enlarge the building with advantage. As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable . . . to erect a plain wooden building and to convert the present gymnasium into a swimming bath. . . . In 1859, when the gymnasium was finished, there were 623 students in Cambridge departments of the University; there...
Final plans are now being drawn by the architects, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, for the new Dental School building, which is soon to be erected on the corner of Longwood avenue and Wigglesworth street, Brookline, on the site purchased three years ago by the Corporation. As at first planned, the building was to be three stories high and was to cost in the neighborhood of $250,000, with as much more needed for a permanent endowment fund. As only about $140,000 of the building fund has been raised, including the recent gift...
...strong, young soul that walked erect and peerless...
...been appropriated, and no plans for a new bridge have been made. A short time after the passage of this act, the Cambridge Bridge Commission passed a vote requesting Mr. Jackson, the city engineer of Boston, to make plans for a new bridge costing about $35,000, to be erected near the site of the present bridge. It was thought that a larger expenditure was unnecessary, as the alumni will probably erect a bridge over the Charles at some future time which will cost several hundred thousand dollars and will be more in keeping with the surroundings than any temporary...
Several of the citizens of Cambridge objected to the proposal to erect a new bridge, and a public hearing was held, at which President Eliot, Major Higginson, and Mr. A. C. Blackall, a noted architect of Boston, spoke against the plan, as well as many of the members of the Cambridge board of aldermen. The reasons given were that the new bridge would not be on the same route as the old one, and that as the bridge was only to be a temporary structure, it would not be substantial enough to justify an expenditure of $35,000. In consequence...