Word: harvardism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sunday Globe contained an article on the Harvard, Yale and Princeton elevens, enumerating the chances of each for winning the championship. It showed a careful study and observation of the subject...
...following is the schedule of the Yale freshman eleven for the remainder of the season: November 16, Columbia Grammar School, at New York; November 20, Berkeley Lyceum at the Field; November 30, Harvard freshmen, at New Haven...
Cornell expects to build a boat house on the Groton side of the Thames river at New London, about half-way be the Yale and Harvard quarters. They propose to arrange annual contests on the Thames...
...Harvard Bridge, of which so much is expected in the way of rapid transit between Boston and Cambridge, is at length nearing completion. A portion of the fence remains to be set up and the planking is yet to be laid on the Cambridge end of the bridge; this work will probably be finished within three weeks, when the bridge will be practically complete. The house to accommodate the draw tender and cover the draw machinery is not yet built, but its construction will not delay the opening of the bridge; the same can be said of the asphalt pavement...
...Harvard bridge was built by special act of legislature at a cost of $500,000, apportioned equally between Boston and Cambridge. It is built of plate girders and divided into twenty-one spans (excluding the draw), varying from 75 to 105 feet in length. The dimensions of the bridge are: length, 2157 feet; width, 70 feet; height above mean high water, 14 feet. The draw, 135 feet in length, is placed In the centre of the structure and is operated by an electric motor...