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...plan of the Committee of Twenty-one at Yale concerning Yale's new athletic facilities is now public. This plan includes not only the construction of an oval-shaped coliseum to be ready for the Princeton football game in 1913, and to cost $300,000, on the newly acquired land across Derby avenue from the present Yale field; but also a commodious clubhouse to cost $100,000. In addition, a new baseball stand on the old field will be erected at the cost...
...coliseum is the main item in an extensive program for improving athletic facilities at New Haven. One hundred acres of land have already been acquired, at a cost of $140,000, opposite the present field, and the work of grading has commenced. An adequate club house will eventually be erected on a part of it. The coliseum, however, is first in order, and it is hoped that it will be completed by next fall...
...other races, and utter contempt for government has been instilled into him, while America has been painted as a Utopia of absolute equality. Instead of that he finds his condition, though better than at home, far below that of those about him, and cannot understand it in a land of freedom...
...Fortunate Jovannovicz Bagocius de Bojaczewski will speak on "The Lawrence Strike and the Education of the Foreigner" in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Bagocius is a Lithuanian by birth, but was driven from his native land by the Russian government. After much hardship and adventure he came to America, and has devoted himself to the investigation of the conditions of his countrymen here and to the study of the problems of immigration. While thus engaged, he visited nearly all the Lithuanian colonies in America. He is now an editor of a Boston paper...
Buildings at the foot of Holyoke street are already being vacated, and will soon be torn down to clear the ground for the new Freshman dormitory to be located there. The land to the east of the Edison power plant along Boylston street, and that immediately north of Holyoke street along the bank of the Charles, will also be cleared this winter, so that the work of laying the foundations of the three Freshman dormitories may begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground next spring...