Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...intended in the new plan to change the salt basin of the Back Bay into a fresh water pond. Instead of an old style dam of rigid construction, the new plan suggests the erection of a folding or collapsible dam similar to dams which have been successfully operated in the Ohio River and the River Thames in England. The folding dams constructed by the United States Government in the Ohio are so arranged that by simple mechanism the whole structure can be laid flat below the level of the lower sill, so that ice can pass out and the water...
There are two parodies in this issue which are much better than the average -- "Ever Holdem?" and "The Diary of a Very Fresh Freshman" by Charles Buncom Flapjack. In each of these the writer has taken advantage of a very pronounced style in works which are probably familiar to all, and brings in his points very cleverly...
...shorter stories seem the better. "Our Visitors" and "Epitaph on a Maid-of-all-work" by H. W. Longfellow are especially good, "To a Drop of Fresh Pond Water" by Curtis Guild, Jr., '81, and "The Maiden's Gambit" by F. J. Stimson '76, show no signs of age except in the appended dates of their respective authors...
...originally intended. The present plan contemplates a dam in conjunction with a new bridge, with separate sections between every two adjacent piers, and so arranged that any section may be opened to permit the tide to enter. This would result in a basin of salt water, instead of fresh water, as would have been the case under the former plan. By opening the dam at intervals the water of the basin could be renewed, and any possible unhealthful effects of stagnation would thus be obviated...
...hares, H. B. Clark '01 and H. S. Knowles '02, went up Garden and Bratt'e Streets, around Fresh Pond by road, and then broke on this side of the pond...