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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gridiron will have to be resodded. The Yale Field management as a result of this condition of affairs and to avoid trouble in the future at football games, has set a corps of men at work on the immediate preparation of a new university gridiron upon the land recently purchased opposite Yale Field. This will be resodded and used for future practice of the university squad and the regular gridiron kept for games and particularly for the big game at the end of the season...
...Basin. In May the Massachusetts Legislature passed an act in accordance with the act of Congress, providing for the building of a bridge with funds donated for the purpose. The act also provided for a bond issue of $50,000 to enable the Metropolitan Park Commission to buy land in Boston connecting lands now in its control bordering on the river. The Legislature failed, however, to make provision for the changes in the grades of North Harvard street in Boston and Boylston street in Cambridge, which will be necessary in connection with the building of the bridge. Negotiations...
...Peirce '71, United States Ambassador to Norway, will speak on "Diplomatic Life in Russia" in Brattle Hall this afternoon at 4.45 o'clock. He will also deliver a second lecture, on "The Land of the Vikings in Brattle Hall on November...
...book? Yes, the book was pretty evasive, like all well-behaved comic opera librettos. A princess, dwelling in a land where thinness is held to be a vice, proves an eyesore to her noble parent because she has not been able to acquire sufficient avoirdupois to be accounted a beauty. A young American happens to disagree with the ideas of the community regarding the beautiful, and informs the young lady that she is his ideal. She is discovered by her sister in the arms of the stranger, and the news is conveyed to her "papa". The stranger flees...
...army but later was extended so as to bring in men of distinction in any line of service. In 1870 the rules were again revised, admitting foreigners and women of merit. The total membership is at present something over twelve thousand and includes the greatest citizens of every land...