Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college playground has been inadequate for a long time. The land now presented is beyond the bridge, to the right, and adjoins the Longfellow bequest. It is pleasant to do a kindness for the dear old college; she needs help and devotion from us all, for she has given us and our land more than any one of us will give back. This is to be more than a play-ground; it is a memorial of friends who gave their lives for their country...
...pressing need at Harvard has always been additional space for athletic purposes. The five acres on Holmes, the five on Jarvis and the ten on Norton's Field-of which only five, however, belong to the college will now be doubled by this gift, which comprises land lying on the Brighton side of the Charles River, on the upper side of the bridge, diagonally across from the Weld boat house and only eight minutes' walk from Harvard square...
...long been the desire of the authorities to open up the land deeded by Mr. Longfellow, but the cost of filling in the marshes as well as the prospect of unsatisfactory results in case a dike were built, has a ways deterred them. It has been estimated that to fill in the Longfellow land would cost at least four thousand dollars an acre. This new gift, however, is situated on high ground, four feet above the water level. It accordingly affords ample room for all present development and at the some time it will be easy gradually to extend quarters...
...large as all the grounds now in use. The soil of the new field is better than that of Norton's Field, and can be made ready for use with little difficulty. As soon as that is put into shape, work will be begun upon the adjacent swamp land belonging to the college, and this will be gradually reclaimed, until at the end of twenty years, Harvard will have the finest athletic park in the country. These grounds, too, are within only seven or eight minutes walk of the yard, and close by the Weld boat house, which has already...
...Balfour's Land Bill," by Mr. Parnell, is the ballast of the number. In it the Home Ruler shows that the measure is totally insufficeint for relief, in that it will not reach one out of four Irish tenants, and that it would benefit a large number of tenants who hire but do not occupy farms, and use them only for grazing purposes. According to Mr. Parnell, the measure selects absentee owners for favored treatment, while it compels the real tenant to buy his land at an inflated price...