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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Ground has been broken for the new Infirmary, the gift to Mr. James Stillman of New York. The contract has been awarded to Norcross Brothers, and the work of digging the foundations has already begun. The site now being built upon is a different piece of property from the land originally chosen. It was planned at first to build the Infirmary on Mt. Auburn street, between the Old People's Home and the Cambridge Hospital. Recently however, an arrangement has been made with the Cambridge Hospital by which the land was exchanged for a lot on Mt. Auburn street...
...this year the expedition has usually been taken to Professor Shaler's estate in Chilmark, but the rapid increase year by year in the numbers of those who were taken has made larger quarters necessary. Makonikey is a very convenient starting place for surveying practice as the land rises near the shore high enough to give good locations for triangulation stations. With the sea so close by, the mean sea level is easily obtained...
...sailing June 26, the second June 27,--will each have aboard one hundred and eighty-six men and eighty-nine women and the Sedgwick, which is to sail June 27, will carry four hundred and seventy-five women. These steamers are expected to arrive in Boston harbor, and to land their passengers at the Charlestown Navy Yard. No spectators will be allowed in the Navy Yard at the time of disembarkation...
...Vineyard. Mr. Turner and about sixty men will leave Cambridge on June 16 and remain at Martha's Vineyard until August 4. At Makoniky, a small town a few miles south of West Chop on the Sound side of the island, the University has rented about 400 acres of land with a summer hotel and wharfing facilities. The work there will consist of field practice in plane, topographical, geodetic, and railroad surveying...
...called Soldiers Field proper is that part included in Major Higginson's gift, on which are the baseball and football fields, the track, the Locker Building, and the Lodge. But on the north and west, between this tract and the river is a large extent of reclaimed land known as the Longfellow meadow. This land has been in the possession of the University for many years, but until lately it was regarded as practically useless. A process of draining and filling in, however, has resulted in reclaiming it completely. As soon as more gravel is thrown on and about...